flag: Russia

Simbolo de indicador regional Ru Rusia

Information

The flag: Russia emoji is the crisp white–blue–red tricolor that instantly says “Privet!” from your keyboard. On Apple/iOS it appears as a small, glossy, left-waving rectangle on a silver pole, with clean horizontal bands: white on top, deep blue in the middle, and bold red at the bottom. People drop it to tag trips to Moscow or St. Petersburg, to shout out Russian language learning, or to cheer on chess prodigies, figure skaters, hockey teams, and virtuoso pianists. It can also stand in for Russian culture at large—think matryoshka dolls, samovars, classic literature, ballet, and space-age cosmonaut vibes.

Online, this emoji pops up when someone switches to Cyrillic, flexes a Tetris high score, braves an epic snow day, or leans into “hardbass/Adidas tracksuit” meme energy—sometimes sincere, sometimes winking. It can be used dryly or sarcastically to caption anything “very Russian,” from steamy tea rituals to indestructible winter boots. Visually, the iOS version’s saturated colors and gentle wave make it easy to spot even at tiny sizes. Historically, it’s the modern national tricolor with roots going back to the late 17th century and re-emerged in the 1990s, so expect it in posts about culture, history, travel, sports, and trending news.

Definition

Russe! God, blue the tzar and blue the peasants.

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
2. In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	735 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture	Image not available
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture	Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:ru:
Keywords
Previous Names:	Regional Indicator Symbol Letters RU Russia Russian Flag

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
Unicode Range	1F173–1F1FF
Unicode Subcategory	Regional Indicator Symbols

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory	Regional Indicator Symbols
Names & Annotations	REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTERS RU Temporary Notes: Russia
Symbol Information	🇷🇺 U+1F1F7 U+1F1FA unified
Proposal Identifier	e-4EC

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	[ロシア]
KDDI	#367 ロシア国旗 「roshia国旗」 U+E5D6 SJIS-F349 JIS-792A
Softbank	#429 #old441 国旗(ロシア) 「国旗(roshia)」 U+E512 SJIS-FBB2

Emoji Character Encoding Data

Emoji Code Version	iOS 4 Code
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)	e512
Formal Unicode Notation	U+E512
Decimal Code Point(s)	58642
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xEE 0x94 0x92
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	EE 94 92
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	356 224 222
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE512
UTF-16 Hex	e512
UTF-16 Dec	58642
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0000E512
UTF-32 Hex	E512
UTF-32 Dec	58642
Python Src	u"\uE512"
PHP Src	"\xee\x94\x92"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uE512"

Emoji Code Version	iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	🇷🇺
UTF-8 Character Count	2
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	🇷🇺
Decimal HTML Entity	🇷 🇺
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	🇷 🇺
Hex Code Point(s)	1f1f7, 1f1fa
Formal Unicode Notation	U+1F1F7, U+1F1FA
Decimal Code Point(s)	127479, 127482
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBA
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	F0 9F 87 B7, F0 9F 87 BA
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	360 237 207 267, 360 237 207 272
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xD83C 0xDDF7, 0xD83C 0xDDFA
UTF-16 Hex	d83cddf7, d83cddfa
UTF-16 Dec	55356 56823, 55356 56826
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0001F1F7 0x0001F1FA
UTF-32 Hex	01F1F7, 01F1FA
UTF-32 Dec	127479, 127482
Python Src	u"\U0001F1F7\U0001F1FA"
PHP Src	"\xf0\x9f\x87\xb7\xf0\x9f\x87\xba"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uD83C\uDDF7\uD83C\uDDFA"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)