Regional indicator symbol letter y Emoji

Flags

A blue, square-framed character displaying a bold capital letter Y. It is designed to appear as a digital tile rather than a standard typeface character.

Usage Context

This emoji is used primarily as a building block for flag emojis. By pairing this with another regional indicator, such as regional indicator symbol letter e, users create the country flag for Yemen. On its own, it is often used as a direct way to emphasize the letter Y or a quick way to represent a 'yes' or a question mark replacement in short-form texting.

History

Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, these characters were implemented to solve the complex challenge of representing hundreds of world flags without creating a unique image file for every single country. By combining two letters, mobile operating systems automatically render the corresponding national flag.

Details

Glyph

🇾

Unicode

U+1F1FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDFE;

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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