Regional indicator symbol letter i Emoji

Flags

A square-shaped icon featuring the uppercase letter 'I' displayed in a bold, sans-serif font. It is part of the regional indicator set used by systems to trigger country-specific flag graphics.

Usage Context

While it functions as a standalone letter, its primary use is paired with other regional indicators like 🇷 to form ISO 3166-1 country codes. When combined with 🇹, it renders the flag of Italy, or with 🇩 to display the flag of Indonesia.

History

These symbols were introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 to allow mobile devices to map two-letter character sequences to regional flag images, solving the technical challenge of representing hundreds of national flags without creating individual emoji characters for every single country.

Details

Glyph

🇮

Unicode

U+1F1EE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1ee:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDEE;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Flags

Subcategory country-flag

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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