Regional indicator symbol letter x Emoji

Flags

A square-bordered letter 'X' designed to look like a tile or a character block. It serves as a building block for constructing flag emojis when combined with another regional indicator symbol.

Usage Context

While it can function as a simple letter 'X' to signify a mistake or a 'close' action in text-based interfaces, its primary function is to form national or regional flags. When placed next to another regional indicator, systems render them as a single flag image. It is frequently used alongside ❌ to emphasize rejection or to signal that a specific option is unavailable.

History

These regional indicators were added to the Unicode standard in 2010 to allow platforms to represent the flags of countries without needing to include a separate character for every nation on Earth. By pairing 26 different letter tiles, developers could programmatically render any flag defined by the ISO 3166-1 standard.

Details

Glyph

🇽

Unicode

U+1F1FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDFD;

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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