Regional indicator symbol letter d Emoji
Flags
A blue, bold letter 'D' encased in a square, stylized to mimic the look of a physical flag or a computer icon. This character is specifically designed to function as a building block for flag sequences.
Usage Context
This is part of the regional indicator set, which pairs two letters together to trigger a flag rendering on most devices. It is most frequently combined with another letter to represent countries or regions, such as pairing it with 🇪 to form the flag of Germany. Outside of flags, it is often used as a standalone letter for shorthand or ranking.
History
These symbols were introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 to allow systems to translate two-character letter codes into national flags. Before this, global mobile platforms struggled to display country flags consistently, forcing developers to rely on these character-pairing hacks.
Details
Glyph
🇩
Unicode
U+1F1E9
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f1e9:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Flags
Subcategory country-flag
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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