Regional indicator symbol letter t Emoji
Flags
A blue square featuring a bold, white capital letter 'T'. This character is part of a specific set used to construct flag icons by pairing two regional indicator symbols together.
Usage Context
While it serves as the letter T in standard text, its primary function is to act as one half of a country flag sequence. When placed next to another regional indicator, the system combines them to render the national flag of a specific country, such as the flag of Thailand or Tunisia.
History
These regional indicator symbols were introduced as part of the Unicode 6.0 update in 2010. They were designed to provide a systematic, extensible way to represent every country's flag without needing to manually add every individual flag graphic to the character set.
Details
Glyph
🇹
Unicode
U+1F1F9
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f1f9:
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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