Regional indicator symbol letter w Emoji
Flags
A blue square featuring a bold, white letter W. This character acts as a building block for regional indicator sequences, which allow systems to display country and territory flags.
Usage Context
This is primarily used by developers and platforms to trigger the rendering of national flags. When placed next to another regional indicator letter, such as the symbol for 'O' to form 'WO' or 'U' to form 'WU', it helps generate specific geographic icons. In casual text, it is sometimes used to emphasize the letter itself or to abbreviate words starting with W.
History
Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the regional indicator set was developed to allow for a standardized way to represent international flags without the need to encode every single flag as a unique image, saving space in global messaging systems.
Details
Glyph
🇼
Unicode
U+1F1FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f1fc:
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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