Regional Indicator Symbol Letter J is the Unicode component U+1F1EF used to build flag emoji via regional indicator pairs. It is a visible, letter-like symbol and not a standalone, fully qualified emoji. Its primary role is to combine with another regional indicator symbol to represent an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 region code in an emoji flag sequence. By itself, it generally appears as a boxed or stylized letter J rather than a country flag.
When placed next to another regional indicator, most platforms render the pair as a single flag glyph if the code corresponds to a recognized region (for example, J + P β π―π΅ Japan, J + M β π―π² Jamaica, J + O β π―π΄ Jordan, J + E β π―πͺ Jersey). If no supported flag is matched, the two separate letter symbols remain visible as fallback. On Apple/iOS, a lone regional indicator typically shows as a boxed letter, while a valid pair displays as a flag; unsupported combinations show two boxed letters. This character does not appear on standard keyboards and is mainly encountered in encoded text or copy/paste workflows.
Technically, regional indicators do not participate in ZWJ sequences, do not take skin tone modifiers, and do not use variation selectors to affect presentation. They function strictly as components in βemoji flag sequences,β where two consecutive regional indicators form a single grapheme cluster representing a flag. Outside such sequences, this character is rendered as a visible symbol and may inherit text or emoji styling depending on the platformβs emoji implementation. It lives in the regional indicator subrange U+1F1E6βU+1F1FF and is widely supported across modern systems.
The letter J 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) | 1f1ef |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127471 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 257 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddef |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56815 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127471 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xaf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEF" |
