Iceland Flag Emoji
The Iceland flag emoji 🇮🇸 shows a blue field with a red Nordic cross outlined in white, with the vertical part offset to the hoist side.
Platform rendering status for the Iceland flag emoji
PasteMoji has not recorded versioned, dated rendering evidence for the platforms below. The same IS Unicode region sequence may appear as a flag, letter indicators, or fallback characters depending on the operating system, font, app, and version.
What the Colors Mean
Flag History
Icelanders first rallied around a white-on-blue cross flag, the 'Hvitblainn', around 1900. A red cross was added — a design proposed by antiquarian Matthias Thordarson in 1906 — and the Danish king approved the flag for Iceland in 1915; it became the sovereign state flag in 1918 and the republic's flag in 1944.
✨ Did you know?
Iceland's flag movement caught fire in 1913 when a Danish coastguard ship confiscated a Hvitblainn flag from a young man rowing in Reykjavik harbor — the public outrage pushed Denmark to grant Iceland a flag of its own.
Unicode sequence for 🇮🇸
The Iceland flag is not one code point. It is a valid emoji flag sequence made from two Regional Indicator Symbols associated with the region code IS. Unicode defines the sequence; each platform chooses how to draw the resulting flag.
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter I
- 🇮 · U+1F1EE
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter S
- 🇸 · U+1F1F8
Full sequence: U+1F1EE U+1F1F8. Copy the rendered flag above instead of copying one indicator by itself.