What does ๐บ๐ธ mean?
Flag of the United States: the USA, American topics, patriotism. Windows shows it as two letters.
Its official Unicode name is REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER U + REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER S and its CLDR short name is "flag: United States" (in Hungarian: "zรกszlรณ: Egyesรผlt รllamok"). It belongs to the Flags group and was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- flag
In Hungarian: zรกszlรณ
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws ๐บ๐ธ in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+1F1FA U+1F1F8. As a flag it is made of two regional indicator letters: Windows doesn't draw flags, so it shows the two letters instead.
Technical details
- Official name
- REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER U + REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER S
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- zรกszlรณ: Egyesรผlt รllamok
- English name (CLDR)
- flag: United States
- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- Group
- Flags ยท country flag
- Length
- 2 code points ยท 8 bytes in UTF-8 ยท 4 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :us:
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Frequently asked questions
What does the ๐บ๐ธ emoji mean?
Flag of the United States: the USA, American topics, patriotism. Windows shows it as two letters.
How do I type the ๐บ๐ธ emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "flag".
When was the ๐บ๐ธ emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010), so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.