Black Flag
U+2691⚑Symbol · decimal ⚑
Flag Symbols & Emoji Copy & Paste
Browse 300 flag symbols & emoji and read the meaning before you use one. Encoded largely within Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement.
Copy flag symbols & emoji
300 characters and sequences. Select any entry to copy the text behind it.
Nothing here matches that.
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Flag Symbols & Emoji with Unicode names and HTML codes
A sample of 12 entries from the 300 on this page. Formal Unicode names are what separate the lookalikes; the hexadecimal and decimal references below reproduce each value exactly.
Flag: American Samoa
U+1F1E6 U+1F1F8🇦 🇸Emoji sequence · decimal 🇦 🇸
Flag: Curaçao
U+1F1E8 U+1F1FC🇨 🇼Emoji sequence · decimal 🇨 🇼
Flag: Guatemala
U+1F1EC U+1F1F9🇬 🇹Emoji sequence · decimal 🇬 🇹
Flag: Jordan
U+1F1EF U+1F1F4🇯 🇴Emoji sequence · decimal 🇯 🇴
Flag: Madagascar
U+1F1F2 U+1F1EC🇲 🇬Emoji sequence · decimal 🇲 🇬
Flag: Pakistan
U+1F1F5 U+1F1F0🇵 🇰Emoji sequence · decimal 🇵 🇰
Flag: São Tomé & Príncipe
U+1F1F8 U+1F1F9🇸 🇹Emoji sequence · decimal 🇸 🇹
Flag: Venezuela
U+1F1FB U+1F1EA🇻 🇪Emoji sequence · decimal 🇻 🇪
Flag: Nauru
U+1F1F3 U+1F1F7🇳 🇷Emoji sequence · decimal 🇳 🇷
White Flag
U+1F3F3 U+FE0F🏳 ️Emoji sequence · decimal 🏳 ️
Regional Indicator Symbol Letter Z
U+1F1FF🇿Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🇿
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Flag Symbols & Emoji: types, meanings and practical differences
Flag characters include plain text pennants, signalling flags and regional emoji sequences built from country codes.
These carry history and belief. Check what one means before you use it. Stored on this page are 300 entries, split 33 single characters to 267 sequences.
You will meet Black Flag, Flag: American Samoa, Flag: Curaçao, Flag: Guatemala among these. Measured over the full set, the leading name patterns are Regional Indicator Symbol (544), Tag Latin Small (15), Variation Selector-16 (7). Single-character values span U+2690 to U+1F6A9.
Browse flag symbols & emoji by type
Symbol
2 entries
Emoji or pictograph
31 entries
Emoji sequence
267 entries
Counted from the stored set
The range these flag symbols & emoji occupy
Single-character entries cover U+2690 to U+1F6A9, breaking down by general category as symbol 33.
Recurring formal-name families
Regional Indicator Symbol (544), Tag Latin Small (15), Variation Selector-16 (7) lead the name frequencies — measured, not assumed.
How the multi-part entries are built
Sequence count is 267. Joiners appear in 4, variation selectors in 5, and the deepest entry stacks 7 code points.
How to choose the right form
The easy mix-up is Flag: American Samoa versus Flag: Curaçao. They are different characters: U+1F1E6 U+1F1F8 and U+1F1E8 U+1F1FC. Try emoji sequence first — 267 to pick from.
Only reach for symbol when the narrower sense is the point. Colour or no colour is the first choice: 298 emoji, 2 plain. Always check it in the place it will appear.
Grouping is by purpose. A single group can mix letters, symbols and punctuation as Unicode defines them.
267Emoji sequence
Multi-code-point emoji held together by joiners. 89% here.
31Emoji or pictograph
Colour artwork, supplied by the platform. 10% here.
2Symbol
Monochrome characters you can style like text. 1% here.
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Flag Symbols & Emoji explained in plain English
Short summary
This page has 300 flag symbols & emoji to copy. Most of them, 267 in all, are emoji sequence. Their home in Unicode is the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block. 298 of them are emoji and come out in colour. The other 2 take the colour of the text near them.
Sorted into 3 kinds
They split into symbol, emoji or pictograph and emoji sequence. Emoji sequence leads with 267.
Where they live in Unicode
They come from Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (544), Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (13) and Miscellaneous Symbols (5). The range is U+2690 to U+1F6A9. That spread is why fonts disagree.
Two that look alike
Flag: American Samoa is not Flag: Curaçao. Read the name, not the shape.
267 entries are sequences
Half-copying breaks 267 of these. Take the whole value.
Vocabulary for this topic
The vocabulary below comes from the formal names and groupings of these flag symbols & emoji.
- Symbol
- Emoji or pictograph
- Emoji sequence
- Flag
- Country
- Nation
- Regional
- Indicator
- Banner
- American
- Samoa
- Curaçao
A quick choice checklist
- Match the meaning. Start with symbol when that group fits your message.
- Read the name. Compare Black Flag with Flag: American Samoa before you pick by shape.
- Test the result. Paste the full value into the app, document, or profile where it will appear.
What the flag symbols & emoji inventory actually contains
Every figure below is counted from the 300 entries stored for this page rather than estimated. The characters are drawn from Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (544), Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (13) and Miscellaneous Symbols (5).
| Group | Entries | Examples | Code points | Usual presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symbol | 2 | ⚑ ⚐ | U+2690–U+2691 | Text presentation |
| Emoji or pictograph | 31 | 🏁 🚩 🏳 | U+1F38C–U+1F6A9 | Emoji presentation |
| Emoji sequence | 267 | 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🏴☠️ | sequence | Emoji presentation |
Practical note: Presentation is the typical default. A variation selector, a specific font stack, or an application that overrides emoji rendering can change what you see after pasting.
Keep exploring this topic
Compare these choices with transport symbols and religion symbols. For a deeper explanation, read Emoji Sequences Explained: Joiners, Skin Tones and Flags. For a quick answer first, see why does a flag emoji show as letters?.
Tip: Keep the plain words next to the symbol. Text is what makes a design searchable and readable to someone using a screen reader.
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How to use flag symbols & emoji
Selecting an entry places its exact code points on your clipboard. Paste with Ctrl V, ⌘ V, or the Paste command on mobile.
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Historical and educational references
Reach for Black Flag, and never let it replace a word that matters.
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Faith and community communication
For faith and community communication, choose among the 267 emoji sequence entries, then check the weight sits comfortably beside your type.
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Games, heraldry and contextual storytelling
When creating games, heraldry and contextual storytelling, paste the complete entry — several of these are multi-code-point sequences that break if truncated.
Copy-ready flag symbols & emoji examples for historical and educational references
Historical and educational references
⚑ Flag Symbols & Emoji referenceFaith and community communication
⚑ ⚐ 🏁Games, heraldry and contextual storytelling
🏁 flag symbols & emoji ⚑05
Typing flag symbols & emoji without copying them
If you would rather type than paste, the codes below are what you need — the decimal value for Windows, the hexadecimal for Word and macOS.
| Character | Name | Windows | Hex | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ⚑ | Black Flag | Alt 9873 | 2691 | ⚑ |
| 🇿 | Regional Indicator Symbol Letter Z | Not available | 1F1FF | 🇿 |
Alt codes need a physical numeric keypad and stop at U+FFFF. 31 entries here sit above that ceiling. A further 267 are sequences, which no shortcut reproduces — copy those instead. Each platform's method is spelled out in the keyboard guide.
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How flag symbols & emoji render across fonts, apps and devices
About 97% come from Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement. The rest come from Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs and Miscellaneous Symbols. 2 are plain text and follow your font.
The other 298 are emoji, so the system picks their colour, not you. Unicode files the emoji ones under Flags. Watch the 267 that use several characters at once.
4 of those are held together by a hidden joiner. Copy the whole thing, or it breaks apart. The newest here arrived in Emoji 16.0.
Older phones show a blank box instead.
What travels is the character; what you see is whatever font the destination reaches for. That is why the same flag symbols & emoji can look heavier on a phone than in a document.
33Single characters
267Sequences
298Emoji properties
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Common mistakes with flag symbols & emoji
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Picking Black Flag when you wanted Flag: American Samoa.
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Treating the whole set as if it renders identically.
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Copying only part of one of the 267 multi-code-point sequences instead of the whole value.
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Reaching for one of the 298 emoji entries where a text mark was needed, so the colour artwork clashes with the surrounding type.
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Flag Symbols & Emoji questions and answers
What is the difference between Flag: American Samoa and Flag: Curaçao?+
U+1F1E6 U+1F1F8 is Flag: American Samoa; U+1F1E8 U+1F1FC is Flag: Curaçao. Because the encoded identity differs, substituting one for the other can change what a reader or a piece of software understands.
What is the HTML code for black flag?+
⚑ is the hexadecimal form and ⚑ the decimal one; both render as ⚑. On a page that declares UTF-8 you can also just paste the character.
Which flag symbols & emoji work as plain text rather than emoji?+
2 of the 300 are ordinary text characters. They take the colour and weight of the surrounding font, which suits documents, code and interface labels. The other 298 are emoji and arrive as colour artwork you cannot restyle.
Why does one of these flag symbols & emoji split apart when I paste it?+
267 entries here are sequences of more than one code point, and 4 of those are held together by a zero-width joiner. If the destination does not support the sequence, or if the copy was truncated, the parts render individually. Copy the entry with the button rather than by selecting the characters.
Which Unicode block are these flag symbols & emoji in?+
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement holds most of them — 544 characters; the rest come from Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs and Miscellaneous Symbols. Older blocks are the safe ones; anything added recently needs testing first.
Will these flag symbols & emoji work on older phones?+
The newest entry on this page was introduced in Emoji 16.0. Devices that have not received a font update since then will show a blank rectangle instead. Test on a real older device before using a recent character where the meaning matters.
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Learn more about flag symbols & emoji
Where to take flag symbols & emoji next
Characters carrying cultural meaning deserve a check that what you copied is only what you intended to copy.
Invisible Character InspectorReveal zero-width spaces, joiners and direction marks without changing the text you paste into the inspector.Open the text inspector →Cursive Text ConverterCreate script-style Unicode text while keeping a plain-text version for names, search and accessibility.Open the text converter →
Composing a finished design from these is what the Symbol Maker is for. Seven browser-based utilities are collected in the Unicode tools hub, which explains which one fits which job.
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Sources for these figures
Nothing here is estimated: the 300 entries are counted directly. The Unicode 17.0 character database supplies every formal name and category here, and the emoji data files decide which entries carry emoji properties.
- Unicode Character Database — UnicodeData.txt (formal names and general categories)
- Unicode emoji-test.txt (fully-qualified emoji sequences and grouping)
- The Unicode Standard, current version
- How CoolSymbol.now sources, counts and tests this data