U+1F3C1 "🏁" Chequered Flag Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🏁
U+1F3C1 "🏁" Chequered Flag is a standard pictographic symbol representing a black and white checkerboard flag, most commonly associated with the finish line or end of a race in motorsports and other competitive events. Digitally introduced to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0, it is widely used in text messaging and social media to signify completion, victory, or the conclusion of a challenging task or journey. Its design typically features a white field intersected by a grid of black squares, instantly recognizable across cultures as a universal icon for a race or goal being finished.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F3C1 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Chequered Flag |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🏁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🏁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDFC1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F3C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udfc1 |