U+1F1E8 "🇨" Regional Indicator Symbol Letter C Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🇨
U+1F1E8 "🇨" Regional Indicator Symbol Letter C is a special character used exclusively in pairs to represent country flags. It belongs to a set of 26 regional indicator symbols, each corresponding to a letter from A to Z, and when combined with another regional indicator, such as U+1F1F3 "🇳" for the letter N, it forms the flag of Canada. Character U+1F1E8 has no independent meaning or visual representation on its own; it functions as a building block within Unicode’s algorithm for displaying national flags, where the pair "🇨🇳" renders as the flag of China.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F1E8 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Regional Indicator Symbol Letter C |
| 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 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDDE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F1E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udde8 |