chequered flag

Group: Flags · Subgroup: Flag · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

checkered
chequered
finish
flag
flags
game
race
racing
sport
win

About this character

chequered flag belongs to the Flags group and is encoded at U+1F3C1. It was added in Unicode 0.6.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F3C1
Hex: 1F3C1
Decimal: 127937
HTML: 🏁
CSS: \1F3C1
JavaScript: \u{1F3C1}
Python: \U0001F3C1
UTF-8: F0 9F 8F 81

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

triangular flag U+1F6A9
crossed flags U+1F38C
black flag U+1F3F4
white flag U+1F3F3
rainbow flag U+1F3F3 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F308
transgender flag U+1F3F3 U+FE0F U+200D U+26A7 U+FE0F
pirate flag U+1F3F4 U+200D U+2620 U+FE0F

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.