U+1F1EF "🇯" Regional Indicator Symbol Letter J Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F1EF "🇯" Regional Indicator Symbol Letter J is a special character used exclusively in pairs to form two letter country codes known as regional indicator sequences. It represents the letter J in these sequences and has no independent meaning on its own, but when combined with another regional indicator symbol, such as U+1F1F5 "🇵" for the letter P, it displays the flag emoji for Japan. This character is classified as a symbol of other type and is part of the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block, supporting the creation of over 250 flag emojis through standardized Unicode pairing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F1EF |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Regional Indicator Symbol Letter J |
| 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 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDDEF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F1EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\uddef |