U+1F1FA "🇺" Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F1FA "🇺" Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U is part of a set of 26 special characters that represent letters from A to Z, designed specifically for use in combination with other regional indicators to form country flag emojis. When paired with another regional indicator symbol, such as the letter S to form "🇺🇸," it renders as the flag of the United States. This character is not intended to be used alone for textual writing but acts as a building block within the Unicode system for displaying national flags on digital platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F1FA |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U |
| 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 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDDFA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F1FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\uddfa |