Regional indicator symbol letter u Emoji

Flags

A blue square featuring the letter 'U' in a bold, sans-serif font. This character acts as a building block for forming national and regional flags.

Usage Context

This emoji is rarely used on its own. Instead, it is paired with other regional indicators to create specific flag sequences. For example, combining this with 🇸 creates the flag for the United States, or with 🇰 for the United Kingdom. It is a technical tool used by operating systems to render country flags based on ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.

History

Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the regional indicator symbols were implemented as a clever workaround to allow devices to display flags without the need to maintain an ever-growing library of individual image files for every country and territory in the world.

Details

Glyph

🇺

Unicode

U+1F1FA

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1fa:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDFA;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Flags

Subcategory country-flag

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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