U+1F1FE "🇾" Regional Indicator Symbol Letter Y Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F1FE "🇾" Regional Indicator Symbol Letter Y is a codepoint within a special range designated to represent individual alphabetical letters used exclusively for creating regional flag emojis. When combined with another regional indicator symbol letter, such as the Letter X, the pair forms a two character sequence that renders as the flag of a specific country or region, following the ISO 3166 1 alpha 2 standard. On its own, this character appears as a stylized letter "Y" inside a square box, but its purpose is never to be used alone; it is strictly a building block for software to display a national flag emoji.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F1FE |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Regional Indicator Symbol Letter Y |
| 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 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDDFE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F1FE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\uddfe |