Regional Indicator Symbol Letter Y is a Unicode emoji component at U+1F1FE, representing the letter Y in the regional indicator set. It is not a standalone emoji, but is designed to build flag emoji through two-letter sequences. When two regional indicators are placed consecutively, they form a single flag glyph corresponding to an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country or region code. The Y indicator participates in valid pairs such as YE (Yemen) and YT (Mayotte), and also appears as the second letter in many codes like KY, MY, SY, UY, BY, LY, GY, CY, and PY.
If no valid flag mapping exists for the pair, most systems show the two individual regional-indicator symbols rather than a flag. By itself, U+1F1FE normally displays as a visible boxed or squared capital Y (or occasionally as a generic fallback glyph), not as a national flag. On Apple/iOS and other major platforms, a recognized pair renders as one flag emoji, while an isolated Y remains a separate regional-indicator symbol; its exact styling depends on the emoji font.
This character does not use ZWJ or Variation Selectors, does not take skin tone or gender modifiers, and is not part of keycap sequences. In rendered text, a valid two-letter sequence is typically treated as a single emoji grapheme cluster for cursor movement and selection. Regional indicators have an emoji role and are generally presented in color in emoji fonts, but presentation can fall back to text-style or missing-glyph boxes on unsupported systems.
The letter Y 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) | 1f1fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127486 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddfe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56830 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127486 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDFE" |
