Regional Indicator Symbol Letter W is one of the 26 regional indicator characters used to build flag emoji. It does not function as a standalone pictographic emoji; instead, it is combined with another regional indicator letter to represent an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 region code. For example, pairing it with T creates TW (flag for Taiwan), with Z creates ZW (flag for Zimbabwe), with K creates KW (Kuwait), and with R creates RW (Rwanda). When a valid pair is recognized, most platforms render the two letters as a single flag glyph; when not, the characters typically remain visible as individual regional indicator symbols or fall back to box-like letter glyphs.
Technically, this character is at code point U+1F1FC and has the Emoji property, but it relies on being paired to produce a flag. It does not use a zero-width joiner and does not respond to skin tone modifiers or variation selectors for emoji/text presentation. On Apple/iOS, a lone regional indicator often shows as a visible “W” styled glyph (or a fallback box) rather than a flag, while a valid pair collapses into the corresponding flag emoji in color. Developers should note that unsupported or nonstandard pairs will remain as two separate symbols, and platform fonts such as Noto Color Emoji or Twemoji may differ in how they display the standalone letter glyph.
The letter W 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) | 1f1fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127484 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddfc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56828 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127484 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDFC" |
