Regional indicator symbol letter q Emoji
Flags
A blue square featuring the capital letter Q in a sans-serif typeface. This character belongs to a set of 26 letters designed specifically for constructing national and regional flags.
Usage Context
You won't see this letter standing alone very often. When it is placed next to another regional indicator, the two characters combine to form the ISO country code for a specific nation. For instance, pairing this with 🇦 creates the flag for Qatar. It is rarely used outside of these technical flag-building sequences.
History
These regional indicators were introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. They were implemented to allow mobile operating systems to map specific pairs of letters to the corresponding graphical country flags, solving the problem of how to represent thousands of unique national emblems in a standard character set.
Details
Glyph
🇶
Unicode
U+1F1F6
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f1f6:
HTML Entity
��
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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