U+1F1E6 "🇦" Regional Indicator Symbol Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🇦
U+1F1E6 "🇦" Regional Indicator Symbol Letter A is a special character used in sequences to represent national flags, as it is not intended to be displayed alone but rather paired with another regional indicator letter to form a two letter country code. For example, when combined with U+1F1E7 "🇧", it creates the flag for Antigua and Barbuda. This character belongs to the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block and is encoded for compatibility with the ISO 3166 1 alpha 2 standard, allowing a text based representation of regional identifiers without needing dedicated emoji flag glyphs for every territory.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F1E6 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Regional Indicator Symbol Letter A |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🇦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🇦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDDE6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F1E6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udde6 |