Regional indicator symbol letter y Emoji
Flags
A blue, square-framed character displaying a bold capital letter Y. It is designed to appear as a digital tile rather than a standard typeface character.
Usage Context
This emoji is used primarily as a building block for flag emojis. By pairing this with another regional indicator, such as regional indicator symbol letter e, users create the country flag for Yemen. On its own, it is often used as a direct way to emphasize the letter Y or a quick way to represent a 'yes' or a question mark replacement in short-form texting.
History
Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, these characters were implemented to solve the complex challenge of representing hundreds of world flags without creating a unique image file for every single country. By combining two letters, mobile operating systems automatically render the corresponding national flag.
Details
Glyph
🇾
Unicode
U+1F1FE
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f1fe:
HTML Entity
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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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