Regional Indicator Symbol Letter F (U+1F1EB) is one of the 26 regional indicator characters used to construct national and regional flag emoji. It is an emoji component, not a standalone fully qualified emoji; it gains meaning when paired with another regional indicator to map to an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. For example, combining it with Regional Indicator Symbol Letter R yields FR for the flag of France, with I yields FI for Finland, with K yields FK for the Falkland Islands, and with O yields FO for the Faroe Islands. Platforms treat a valid pair as a single flag glyph, combining the two code points into one grapheme cluster that displays as a flag.
When used alone, this character typically renders as a visible, boxed or square-styled letter âFâ symbol, although exact appearance varies by platform and font; some environments may show a plain letter or a fallback missing-glyph box. On Apple iOS and macOS, a single regional indicator generally appears as a letter-in-a-square glyph, while a valid pair such as FR collapses into the flag of France. The character does not accept skin tone modifiers, does not participate in Zero Width Joiner sequences, and variation selectors are generally ignored because regional indicators are already rendered with an emoji style in most emoji fonts. It is unrelated to keycap sequences and should not be confused with tag-based subregion flags, which use a different set of Tag characters.
In practice, regional indicators are parsed in pairs; entering more than two in a row usually produces multiple flags with any leftover symbol rendered separately, depending on platform grapheme-cluster rules. Developers can reference this character with its code point U+1F1EB and should ensure emoji-capable fonts are available to avoid fallback boxes. Its role is purely structural: it serves as the âFâ component of a two-letter region code so that emoji systems can assemble the correct flag.
The letter F 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) | đŤ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | đŤ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇫 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇫 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1eb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127467 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 253 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddeb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56811 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127467 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xab" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEB" |
