Russia Flag Emoji
The Russia flag emoji 🇷🇺 shows three horizontal bands of white, blue, and red — the Pan-Slavic colors adopted in the 17th century.
Platform rendering status for the Russia flag emoji
PasteMoji has not recorded versioned, dated rendering evidence for the platforms below. The same RU 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
Peter the Great introduced the white-blue-red tricolor around 1696, likely inspired by the Dutch flag after his shipbuilding studies in the Netherlands. Replaced by the Soviet red banner in 1918, it returned when the USSR dissolved in 1991.
✨ Did you know?
The Pan-Slavic colors used by many Slavic nations (Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czechia) all descend from this Russian tricolor.
Unicode sequence for 🇷🇺
The Russia flag is not one code point. It is a valid emoji flag sequence made from two Regional Indicator Symbols associated with the region code RU. Unicode defines the sequence; each platform chooses how to draw the resulting flag.
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter R
- 🇷 · U+1F1F7
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U
- 🇺 · U+1F1FA
Full sequence: U+1F1F7 U+1F1FA. Copy the rendered flag above instead of copying one indicator by itself.