Regional Indicator Symbol Letter S is a Unicode emoji component used primarily to build country and region flag emojis. It is designed to be paired with another regional indicator symbol to represent an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, rather than to appear as a standalone emoji. For example, combining it with βUβ forms the US flag, and pairings like ES (Spain) or SE (Sweden) render as their respective national flags. This character is distinct from the ASCII letter βSβ and exists specifically for emoji flag composition.
When two regional indicators are placed together, most platforms render them as a single flag emoji glyph. On its own, this symbol may display as a visible, boxed letter-style βregional indicator Sβ on some systems, or appear as a fallback glyph if unsupported; its standalone use is not the intent of the standard. On Apple iOS and macOS, a single instance typically appears as a regional-indicator-style letter, while valid pairs resolve into a flag. It does not use variation selector-16 to force emoji presentation, and it is not joined with ZWJ; the two-letter pairing itself controls flag generation.
Do not confuse regional indicator flags with subdivision or special flags that use tag sequences (waving black flag + tag letters + cancel tag). Regional Indicator Symbol Letter S participates only in the two-letter regional-indicator mechanism for country codes and is not used for keycap compositions or skin tone modification.
The letter S 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) | πΈ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | πΈ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇸 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇸 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1f8 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F8 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127480 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 270 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF8 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf8 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56824 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F8 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F8 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127480 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F8" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF8" |
