triangular flag

Group: Flags · Subgroup: Flag · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

construction
flag
golf
post
triangular

About this character

triangular flag belongs to the Flags group and is encoded at U+1F6A9. 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+1F6A9
Hex: 1F6A9
Decimal: 128681
HTML: 🚩
CSS: \1F6A9
JavaScript: \u{1F6A9}
Python: \U0001F6A9
UTF-8: F0 9F 9A A9

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

chequered flag U+1F3C1
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.