Regional Indicator Symbol Letter C (U+1F1E8) is one of 26 regional indicator characters used to construct country and region flag emoji. It is not a normal Latin letter; instead, it serves as an emoji component that pairs with another regional indicator to represent an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. By itself, it may display as a boxed or squared letter-style symbol depending on the platform, but it is primarily intended to work as part of a two-letter sequence. The character belongs to the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block and is commonly treated with emoji-style rendering.
When this character is placed immediately next to another regional indicator, the two form an emoji flag sequence (for example, CA, CC, CD, CH, CI, CK, CL, CM, CN, CO, CR, CU, CV, CW, CX, CY, CZ). If the pair matches a recognized region code, most platforms collapse the two symbols into one flag glyph; otherwise, the two separate letter-symbols remain visible. On Apple/iOS, a single regional indicator typically appears as a visible boxed letter, and a supported pair becomes a flag; unsupported or nonstandard pairs render as two separate symbols. This character does not respond to skin tone modifiers, does not use Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences, and does not require or employ variation selectors for emoji presentation.
For developers, the correct construction is exactly two adjacent regional indicators with no spaces, joiners, or variation selectors between them. This character is not meant to be a standalone emoji in normal text and is best understood as a building block for flags. Note that certain special flags (such as some subnational or special-purpose flags) use emoji tag sequences with tag letters and a cancel tagβthose use different code points than regional indicators, so do not mix systems. If a platform lacks support for a given pair, users will see two regional indicator symbols rather than a single flag emoji.
The letter C 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) | π¨ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | π¨ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇨 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇨 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1e8 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E8 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127464 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 250 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE8 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde8 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56808 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E8 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E8 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127464 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E8" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE8" |
