Regional Indicator Symbol Letter D is a Unicode emoji component at U+1F1E9 used to build country flag emojis by pairing with another regional indicator symbol. When two regional indicators appear consecutively, they are interpreted as an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and typically render as a single flag emoji (for example, D + E produces the German flag, š©šŖ). By itself, it usually displays as a visible boxed or squared letter-style glyph āDā on many platforms, though exact appearance depends on the font and renderer. It is not intended to function as the standard Latin letter D (U+0044), and using it for ordinary text is discouraged.
Technically, this character has default emoji presentation and does not require a variation selector to appear in emoji style. It does not use the zero width joiner; flag formation is based solely on adjacency of two regional indicators, and inserting any other character (including spaces) prevents combining. On Apple/iOS and other major platforms, a valid pair renders as a single flag grapheme cluster, while a lone regional indicator remains separate and visible; unsupported cases may fall back to a generic boxed glyph. It is distinct from tag-based flag mechanisms for subdivisions (which use TAG characters) and does not modify other emoji outside the flag system. Developers should ensure proper font support and avoid confusing this symbol with normal letters when processing or searching text.
The letter D 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) | š© |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | š© |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇩 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇩 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1e9 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E9 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127465 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA9 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A9 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 251 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE9 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde9 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56809 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E9 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E9 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127465 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E9" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa9" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE9" |
