Regional indicator symbol letter w Emoji
Flags
A blue square featuring a bold, white letter W. This character acts as a building block for regional indicator sequences, which allow systems to display country and territory flags.
Usage Context
This is primarily used by developers and platforms to trigger the rendering of national flags. When placed next to another regional indicator letter, such as the symbol for 'O' to form 'WO' or 'U' to form 'WU', it helps generate specific geographic icons. In casual text, it is sometimes used to emphasize the letter itself or to abbreviate words starting with W.
History
Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the regional indicator set was developed to allow for a standardized way to represent international flags without the need to encode every single flag as a unique image, saving space in global messaging systems.
Details
Glyph
🇼
Unicode
U+1F1FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f1fc:
HTML Entity
��
Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category Flags
Subcategory country-flag
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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