United Kingdom Flag Emoji
The United Kingdom flag emoji 🇬🇧 shows the Union Jack — a combination of the crosses of St. George (England), St. Andrew (Scotland), and St. Patrick (Ireland) on a blue field.
When the United Kingdom flag emoji is used
People use the United Kingdom flag emoji for the UK, British identity, travel, international events, sport, and UK-based news or organizations. “British” and “UK” are common search terms, but a person may prefer the flag of England, Scotland, or Wales when referring to one constituent nation.
Unicode uses the GB region code for this emoji, so its underlying letters are G and B even though the page and everyday label say United Kingdom or UK. It is not the same as the separate England, Scotland, or Wales emoji sequences.
Common names and searches
Platform rendering status for the United Kingdom flag emoji
PasteMoji has not recorded versioned, dated rendering evidence for the platforms below. The same GB Unicode region sequence may appear as a flag, letter indicators, or fallback characters depending on the operating system, font, app, and version.
Display detail: Vendors reproduce the Union Flag’s layered straight and diagonal crosses with slightly different proportions and shades. The diagonal red-and-white lines are asymmetric, so a detailed glyph is not simply the same in every orientation.
What the Colors Mean
Flag History
The Union Jack merges three older flags: England's St George's Cross, Scotland's St Andrew's Saltire, and Ireland's St Patrick's Saltire, in its current form since the 1801 union with Ireland. Wales isn't represented — it was already united with England when the first Union Flag appeared in 1606.
✨ Did you know?
The flag is technically asymmetrical — the red diagonal stripes are offset. Flying it upside down was historically a discreet distress signal.
Unicode sequence for 🇬🇧
The United Kingdom flag is not one code point. It is a valid emoji flag sequence made from two Regional Indicator Symbols associated with the region code GB. Unicode defines the sequence; each platform chooses how to draw the resulting flag.
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter G
- 🇬 · U+1F1EC
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter B
- 🇧 · U+1F1E7
Full sequence: U+1F1EC U+1F1E7. Copy the rendered flag above instead of copying one indicator by itself.
Accessible description for 🇬🇧
When the image or national identity matters, keep the country name in visible text. A concise description is: “Flag of the United Kingdom: red and white straight and diagonal crosses layered on a blue field.”
Screen readers may announce the country, the region code, or the individual symbols depending on the software. Do not use the flag alone for a language picker or critical navigation.