Regional indicator symbol letter g Emoji

Flags

A square icon displaying the Latin capital letter 'G'. It is designed as a building block for two-letter country codes that automatically render as national flags on supported devices.

Usage Context

This emoji is rarely used in isolation. It serves as a mechanical component; when placed next to another regional indicator, like 🇧, it triggers your device to display a specific national flag, such as the flag of Great Britain or Germany. Without a matching partner, it simply appears as a letter in a box.

History

These regional indicators were added to the Unicode standard in 2010 to allow for a flexible way to represent flags without needing to hardcode hundreds of individual country images into every font file. It effectively turned text strings into a dynamic, hardware-level mapping system.

Details

Glyph

🇬

Unicode

U+1F1EC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1ec:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDEC;

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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