United Kingdom flag emoji 🇬🇧
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F1EC U+1F1E7
What 🇬🇧 means
United Kingdom flag 🇬🇧 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: flag.
Those words also drive emoji search: try flag or United Kingdom flag on your phone to find 🇬🇧.
On the emoji keyboard, 🇬🇧 sits with the country flags (259 emoji) inside flags, which has 270 emoji, for example 🇬🇩 🇬🇪 🇬🇫 🇬🇬.
Will 🇬🇧 show on my friend's phone?
🇬🇧 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 🇬🇧
To find 🇬🇧 quickly, type united Kingdom flag into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type united Kingdom flag.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type united Kingdom flag in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type united Kingdom flag.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🇬🇧 as 2 code points, U+1F1EC U+1F1E7: 8 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 4 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F1EC U+1F1E7 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🇬🇧 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🇬🇧 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F1EC \1F1E7"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F1EC}\u{1F1E7} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 87 AC F0 9F 87 A7 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🇬🇧 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | flag: United Kingdom |
| Português | bandeira: Reino Unido |
| Español | Bandera: Reino Unido |
| Italiano | bandiera: Regno Unito |
| Français | drapeau : Royaume-Uni |
| Deutsch | Flagge: Vereinigtes Königreich |
| Türkçe | bayrak: Birleşik Krallık |
| Bahasa Indonesia | bendera: Inggris Raya |
| Polski | flaga: Wielka Brytania |
| Русский | флаг: Великобритания |
| 日本語 | 旗: イギリス |
| 한국어 | 깃발: 영국 |
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All flags emoji →Questions people ask
What does the united Kingdom flag emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🇬🇧 "United Kingdom flag" and links it with flag. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the country flags subgroup of flags.
When was the united Kingdom flag emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the united Kingdom flag emoji?
To find 🇬🇧 quickly, type united Kingdom flag into the emoji search.