Regional indicator symbol letter e Emoji

Flags

A blue square featuring the capital letter 'E' in a bold, sans-serif font. This character acts as a building block for forming regional indicator sequences, which modern systems use to trigger the display of country flags.

Usage Context

This emoji is rarely used on its own. Instead, it is paired with other regional indicator letters to define country codes. For instance, putting this next to 🇺 creates the flag for the European Union. Users mostly encounter these when specifying locations or discussing international travel.

History

These regional indicator symbols were added to the Unicode standard in 2010 to allow software to represent national flags without needing a unique character for every single flag in existence. It was a clever way to handle geographic data within early mobile messaging frameworks.

Details

Glyph

🇪

Unicode

U+1F1EA

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1ea:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDEA;

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

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