Regional indicator symbol letter n Emoji

Flags

A blue square featuring the capital letter 'N' in a clean, sans-serif font. This character is technically classified as a regional indicator, designed to function as a building block for two-letter country codes.

Usage Context

While it can be used to simply represent the letter 'N' or a placeholder for a name, it is almost always used in tandem with another regional indicator, such as 🇮, to form a flag like the flag of Niger. When displayed individually on many platforms, it simply looks like the letter 'N' in a box.

History

These symbols were introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 to help mobile devices translate pairs of letters into country flags without needing individual image files for every nation's banner. It was a clever workaround for early smartphone operating systems to handle internationalization at the font level.

Details

Glyph

🇳

Unicode

U+1F1F3

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1f3:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDF3;

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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