🇬🇧 Flag: United Kingdom emoji
HTML
🇬,127463;
Unicode
U+1F1EC U+1F1E7
What flag is 🇬🇧?
🇬🇧 is the flag emoji for United Kingdom.
It is sometimes called UK flag, Union Flag, or Union Jack. These are natural place-name, regional, translated, abbreviated, or code-based forms; Unicode’s official name is flag: United Kingdom.
What does 🇬🇧 mean?
🇬🇧 is officially named flag: United Kingdom. It represents United Kingdom as the Unicode CLDR region identified by GB, and it can mark the place, its people or teams, travel, location, public events, news, or regional identity.
The sequence can accompany the written place name or stand alone in a location-aware message. Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man are self-governing Crown Dependencies and are not part of the United Kingdom. Related flag pages include 🇬🇦 Flag: Gabon and 🇬🇩 Flag: Grenada.
Other meanings
Beyond a literal label for United Kingdom, it can indicate a personal or family connection, a route or destination, heritage, regional sport, public celebrations, diplomacy, or current affairs. A flag symbol alone does not establish citizenship, residence, or political endorsement.
Example Usage
The itinerary includes United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Today’s update concerns United Kingdom 🇬🇧
More details
Officially named flag: United Kingdom. Its regional-indicator sequence is U+1F1EC U+1F1E7, spelling region code GB. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0.
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Visual description
On supporting platforms, 🇬🇧 is drawn as blue field with the red cross of Saint George (patron saint of England) edged in white on top of the diagonal red cross of Saint Patrick (patron saint of Ireland), which is on top of the diagonal white cross of Saint Andrew (patron saint of Scotland).
Emoji vendors may simplify coats of arms, seals, text, stars, or other fine details and can vary proportions, shading, wave effects, and corners. Unsupported systems may show the separate regional letters GB instead.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
Flag emojis are often drawn as a "wavy rectangle" with flat vertical lines and curved horizontal lines representing a flag in the wind. Some emoji sets use standard rectangles, rectangles with curved corners or circles.
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