The flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Jack, combining crosses of England, Scotland and Ireland. It is also known as the UK flag emoji and british flag emoji. 🇬🇧 Flag: United Kingdom is an emoji from the Flags category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F1EC U+1F1E7 and it was released in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🇬🇧 Flag: United Kingdom mean?
The flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Jack, combining crosses of England, Scotland and Ireland. It is used for British pride, travel, royal events and Team GB at the Olympics. England, Scotland and Wales also have their own flag emojis.
The 🇬🇧 Flag: United Kingdom emoji shows the national flag of United Kingdom. It is built from two regional indicator letters, GB (the ISO country code), which phones and apps combine into a flag. It is used to represent United Kingdom in conversations about travel, sport, national holidays, culture and pride. Windows does not display country flags as images — it shows the two letters instead — but the flag appears correctly on iPhone, Android, Mac and most apps. Flag: United Kingdom has been available since Unicode 6.0 (2010), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :gb: to insert it.
Flag: United Kingdom emoji codes
| Emoji | 🇬🇧 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F1EC U+1F1E7 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🇬🇧 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🇬🇧 |
| CSS | \1F1EC\1F1E7 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F1EC}\u{1F1E7} |
| Python | \U0001F1EC\U0001F1E7 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 87 AC F0 9F 87 A7 |
| Shortcode | :gb: |
| Shortcode (alt) | :uk: |
| Shortcode (alt) | :flag_united_kingdom: |
How to type 🇬🇧 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “United Kingdom”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “United Kingdom”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “United Kingdom”.
- HTML: write
🇬🇧in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Flag: United Kingdom keywords
- GB
- flag
Frequently asked questions
What does 🇬🇧 mean?
The flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Jack, combining crosses of England, Scotland and Ireland. It is used for British pride, travel, royal events and Team GB at the Olympics. England, Scotland and Wales also have their own flag emojis.
What is the 🇬🇧 emoji called?
Its official Unicode name is Flag: United Kingdom, but people also call it the UK flag emoji and british flag emoji.
How do I copy and paste the Flag: United Kingdom emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🇬🇧 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🇬🇧 Flag: United Kingdom added to Unicode?
Flag: United Kingdom was released as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.
Related Country Flags emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.