Uruguay Flag Emoji
The Uruguay flag emoji 🇺🇾 shows nine horizontal bands of white and blue (alternating) with a white canton bearing a golden Sun of May in the upper left corner.
Platform rendering status for the Uruguay flag emoji
PasteMoji has not recorded versioned, dated rendering evidence for the platforms below. The same UY 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
Created by an 1828 law attributed to statesman Joaquin Suarez, in the interval between independence from Brazil and the first constitution. The original carried 19 stripes; in 1830 they were reduced to nine, one for each of the country's founding departments. The colours and sun deliberately echo Argentina's flag.
✨ Did you know?
The Sun of May wears a human face and exactly 16 rays, alternating straight and wavy — a design inherited from the first coins struck during the Rio de la Plata revolution.
Unicode sequence for 🇺🇾
The Uruguay flag is not one code point. It is a valid emoji flag sequence made from two Regional Indicator Symbols associated with the region code UY. Unicode defines the sequence; each platform chooses how to draw the resulting flag.
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U
- 🇺 · U+1F1FA
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter Y
- 🇾 · U+1F1FE
Full sequence: U+1F1FA U+1F1FE. Copy the rendered flag above instead of copying one indicator by itself.