Regional Indicator Symbol Letter M (U+1F1F2) is one of the 26 regional indicator characters used to build two-letter emoji flag sequences. By design it does not function as a standalone emoji; instead, it pairs with another regional indicator to represent an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, such as M + X for the flag of Mexico or M + A for the flag of Morocco. When a valid pair is recognized, platforms render a single flag emoji; if the pair is not mapped to a flag, users typically see two separate regional indicator glyphs side by side. Common valid pairs beginning with M include MA, MC, MD, ME, MF, MG, MH, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MP, MQ, MR, MS, MT, MU, MV, MW, MX, MY, and MZ.
Alone, this character usually appears visibly as a boxed or squared letter “M” styled in emoji form rather than as plain text. On Apple/iOS it renders as a distinct rounded-square “M” symbol, and only becomes a national flag when combined with another regional indicator character to form a recognized country code. It does not combine with skin tone modifiers, does not use zero-width joiners, and normally does not rely on variation selectors for emoji presentation. Regional indicators are emoji components intended for flag composition, not general-purpose alphabetic text, and differ from tag-based flag mechanisms used for certain subregional flags. If a system or app lacks support for certain flags, the fallback is typically the two visible regional indicator symbols rather than a missing-glyph box.
The letter M 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) | 🇲 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🇲 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇲 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇲 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1f2 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F2 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127474 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB2 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B2 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 262 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF2 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf2 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56818 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F2 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F2 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127474 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F2" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb2" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF2" |
