Regional Indicator Symbol Letter L is a Unicode emoji component at code point U+1F1F1. It is designed to be combined with another regional indicator symbol to form a two-letter sequence representing an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, which then displays as a national flag emoji. By itself, it is not a fully qualified emoji; a solitary character may render as a boxed letter โLโ or a similar fallback glyph, and it typically does not appear as an independent item on emoji keyboards. It is primarily a building block used by emoji rendering engines to construct flag emojis from pairs of regional indicators.
This character participates in many flag pairs where the letter L appears in the country code, such as PL (Poland), CL (Chile), IL (Israel), AL (Albania), LU (Luxembourg), LT (Lithuania), LB (Lebanon), LR (Liberia), LS (Lesotho), LK (Sri Lanka), and LA (Laos). The Unicode emoji rules treat runs of regional indicator symbols as paired from left to right; each adjacent pair becomes one flag, and any leftover single symbol may remain as a letter-like glyph. No Zero Width Joiner or variation selectors are used in these flag sequences; they rely solely on the two-letter pairing. As a result, the visual presentation is determined by the platformโs emoji font and flag support rather than explicit styling characters.
On Apple/iOS, a single Regional Indicator Symbol Letter L generally appears as a boxed letter and does not form a flag unless immediately followed or preceded by another regional indicator, at which point the system composes a colorful flag emoji. Other major platforms, like Android, behave similarly, though exact fallback glyphs and typography can differ; if flag rendering is unsupported, users may see individual boxed letters or missing-glyph symbols. Regional indicators are not used for subdivision flags (such as England, Scotland, or Wales); those rely on a Black Flag plus tag sequence mechanism. In practice, this character is useful for developers and content creators who need to programmatically generate or recognize flag emoji sequences based on country codes.
The letter L 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) | ๐ฑ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐ฑ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇱 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇱 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1f1 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F1 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127473 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB1 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B1 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 261 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF1 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf1 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56817 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F1 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F1 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127473 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F1" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb1" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF1" |
