Regional indicator symbol letter p Emoji

Flags

A blue, square-framed character featuring a white capital letter P. It functions as a Regional Indicator symbol, which is a technical building block used by operating systems to render national flags.

Usage Context

You won't see this character sitting alone in most chat apps; when paired with another specific regional indicator, the system renders the pair as a flag icon. For example, placing this next to 🇷 triggers the display of the Puerto Rico flag. It serves as the foundation for geographic expression in digital messaging.

History

These symbols were introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 to provide a flexible way to represent flags without requiring a dedicated emoji character for every single nation on Earth. By linking two letter-based indicators together, developers created a clever workaround to map thousands of flag combinations.

Details

Glyph

🇵

Unicode

U+1F1F5

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1f5:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDF5;

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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