Regional Indicator Symbol Letter R (U+1F1F7) is one of the 26 regional indicator characters used to build flag emoji for countries and regions. By design, it is meant to combine with another regional indicator to form a two-letter sequence corresponding to an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, such as 🇷 + 🇺 for the flag of Russia, 🇷 + 🇴 for Romania, 🇷 + 🇸 for Serbia, or 🇷 + 🇼 for Rwanda. When used alone, it typically displays as a visible boxed or squared letter-style glyph rather than a national flag, though exact styling varies by platform. On Apple/iOS and most modern systems, a valid pair produces a single flag emoji; an unrecognized or invalid pair usually shows two separate regional indicator letters as fallback.
This character has emoji presentation by default and does not require a variation selector to appear as an emoji-style glyph. It does not use zero width joiner and is not a skin tone modifier; its sole role is forming two-letter flag sequences. It is distinct from tag characters used for subdivision flags or special flags (which rely on tag sequences instead of regional indicators). Developers should be aware that some platforms implement additional pairs (like EU or UN) beyond strict ISO country codes, but unsupported pairs will not render as a flag. As a component, the Regional Indicator Symbol Letter R is visible on its own, yet it is primarily intended to function as part of a larger flag sequence rather than as a standalone emoji.
The letter R 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) | 🇷 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🇷 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇷 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇷 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1f7 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F7 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127479 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB7 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B7 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 267 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF7 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf7 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56823 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127479 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F7" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb7" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF7" |
