Regional Indicator Symbol Letter E (U+1F1EA) is one of the 26 regional indicator code points used to build flag emoji. On its own, it is typically rendered as a visible, boxed or squared capital letter E glyph, but it is not intended to be used standalone in normal text. Its primary role is to combine with another regional indicator to form a flag sequence representing an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, such as πͺπͺ (EE for Estonia), πͺπ¬ (EG for Egypt), πͺπΈ (ES for Spain), or the special-case πͺπΊ (EU for the European Union). The character is an emoji component and generally presents in emoji style without requiring a variation selector.
In emoji systems, two adjacent regional indicators are parsed as a single grapheme cluster to display a flag, while single or invalid combinations remain as separate indicator glyphs. No ZWJ is used for flag formation; the pairing itself determines composition. On Apple/iOS and most major platforms, a solitary regional indicator shows as a visible letter-in-square symbol, while a recognized pair displays as a flag; unpaired or extra indicators do not produce a flag and remain as individual boxed letters. Developers often encounter this character when constructing or parsing flag emoji, handling fallback rendering, or validating country-code pairs per CLDRβs RGI (Recommended for General Interchange) set. Although visible, it functions primarily as part of larger sequences, and its appearance can serve as a diagnostic hint when a flag sequence is broken or unsupported. These regional indicators were introduced to standardize the way country and region flags are represented across platforms.
The letter E 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) | πͺ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | πͺ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇪 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇪 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1ea |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EA |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127466 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAA |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AA |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 252 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEA |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddea |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56810 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EA |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EA |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127466 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EA" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xaa" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEA" |
