Regional Indicator Symbol Letter X (U+1F1FD) is one of the 26 regional indicator symbols used to compose country and region flag emoji. It is an emoji-presenting component that generally appears as a visible boxed or squared capital X when rendered by itself, though exact styling varies by platform and font. On Apple/iOS and most modern platforms, a single regional indicator shows as a standalone square letter glyph, but it is primarily intended to be used in a pair. When two regional indicator symbols occur adjacently with no intervening characters, rendering engines usually combine them into one flag emoji for supported ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. If more than two are chained, they are typically consumed in left-to-right pairs, each pair potentially forming a flag. If a pair does not correspond to a supported flag, the two letters remain visible instead of forming a single flag emoji.
The letter X participates in many flags where the two-letter country code includes X, such as MX (Mexico), AX (Γ
land Islands), SX (Sint Maarten), and CX (Christmas Island), with support depending on the platformβs flag list. It is a component character, not a standalone fully qualified emoji, and it does not accept skin tone modifiers or use ZWJ sequences. It defaults to emoji presentation and generally does not need a variation selector to appear as emoji. Developers often generate flag emoji by mapping ASCII letters AβZ to regional indicators (AβU+1F1E6 β¦ XβU+1F1FD) and concatenating two letters that match a valid region code. On iOS, valid pairs normally resolve to a single flag glyph; unsupported pairs show as two separate boxed letters. The characterβs role is visible and structural: it builds flag sequences rather than conveying meaning on its own.
The letter X 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) | π½ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | π½ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇽 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇽 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127485 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddfd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56829 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127485 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDFD" |
