Regional Indicator Symbol Letter A is the Unicode component U+1F1E6 used to build country flag emoji. It is designed to be paired with another regional indicator (letters AโZ) to represent an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, which then displays as a single flag emoji on platforms that support the pair. When used by itself, it is not a fully qualified emoji; most platforms render it as a standalone regional indicator glyph (often a boxed capital A) rather than a national flag, and in rare cases it may appear as a fallback or missing-glyph box. On Apple/iOS and other major systems, an unpaired regional indicator generally appears visibly as the letter-style symbol, while a valid two-letter pairing such as A + E (AE for United Arab Emirates) or U + S (US for United States) resolves to the corresponding flag if supported.
If the two-letter sequence does not map to a recognized or supported region code, the individual regional indicator letters typically remain visible instead of forming a flag. This character does not use zero width joiners, variation selectors, or skin tone modifiers; its behavior is determined purely by adjacency to another regional indicator, and whitespace or punctuation will break the pairing. Regional indicators cover only the English alphabet AโZ to standardize flag construction; subdivision flags (such as England, Scotland, Wales) are not made with regional indicators and instead use a black flag plus tag characters. Screen readers may announce the isolated character as โregional indicator A,โ but when a valid flag is formed, assistive technology commonly reads the country name.
For developers, treat this as a visible emoji component whose grapheme behavior can change when adjacent to another regional indicator. Its UTF-8 encoding is F0 9F 87 A6, and correct rendering depends on font and platform emoji support; unsupported pairs should degrade to two visible regional indicator letters rather than a single flag.
The letter A is represented using a Unicode regional indicator symbol.
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Regional Indicator Symbols can be combined to represent different countries. Two letter country codes follow the ISO 3166 standard found on iso.org.
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐ฆ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐ฆ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇦 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇦 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1e6 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E6 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127462 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA6 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A6 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 246 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE6 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde6 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56806 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E6 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E6 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127462 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E6" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa6" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE6" |
