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

&#xD83C;&#xDDFC;

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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