Japan Flag Emoji
The Japan flag emoji 🇯🇵 shows the Hi-no-Maru (Circle of the Sun) — a white background with a red disc in the center representing the rising sun.
Platform rendering status for the Japan flag emoji
PasteMoji has not recorded versioned, dated rendering evidence for the platforms below. The same JP 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
The Hinomaru ("circle of the sun") was used by feudal warlords for centuries and became the national ensign in 1870, but was only legally confirmed as the national flag in 1999. Japan's identity as the Land of the Rising Sun is drawn literally on the flag.
✨ Did you know?
The sun disc is deliberately set a hair toward the hoist — perfectly centered discs look off-center when the flag flies.
Unicode sequence for 🇯🇵
The Japan flag is not one code point. It is a valid emoji flag sequence made from two Regional Indicator Symbols associated with the region code JP. Unicode defines the sequence; each platform chooses how to draw the resulting flag.
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter J
- 🇯 · U+1F1EF
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter P
- 🇵 · U+1F1F5
Full sequence: U+1F1EF U+1F1F5. Copy the rendered flag above instead of copying one indicator by itself.