Regional Indicator Symbol Letter T (U+1F1F9) is a special Unicode symbol used to build national flag emoji by pairing with another regional indicator letter. These characters map to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country and region codes, so combining T with another regional indicator (for example, T + R for TR) produces a single flag emoji on platforms that support that code. By itself, the character is usually visible and rendered as a stylized boxed letter βTβ in an emoji-like design, though exact appearance varies by platform and font. It is not the same as the Latin capital letter T (U+0054) and should not be used as a general-purpose letter in text.
In emoji systems, any valid pair of regional indicators forms an extended grapheme cluster that renders as one flag glyph; longer runs are segmented into pairs by Unicode text rules. On Apple platforms, a single regional indicator typically displays as a standalone glyph, and a recognized pair collapses into a flag; unsupported pairs or missing fonts may show the two letters or a fallback box. Regional indicator symbols do not take skin tone modifiers, do not use ZWJ, and do not involve variation selectors for emoji/text presentation. Common pairs using T include TR (Turkey), TW (Taiwan), TZ (Tanzania), TO (Tonga), TJ (Tajikistan), TL (Timor-Leste), TM (Turkmenistan), TN (Tunisia), TV (Tuvalu), TD (Chad), and TC (Turks and Caicos Islands).
The letter T is represented using a Unicode regional indicator symbol.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1511 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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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) | πΉ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | πΉ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇹 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇹 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1f9 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F9 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127481 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB9 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B9 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 271 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF9 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf9 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56825 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F9 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F9 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127481 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F9" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb9" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF9" |
