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

&#xD83C;&#xDDE9;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Flags

Subcategory country-flag

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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