flag: United States
The flag of the United States, shown as thirteen horizontal red and white stripes with a blue canton containing white stars
Meaning
The flag of the United States, shown as thirteen horizontal red and white stripes with a blue canton containing white stars. It represents the country itself and commonly appears in contexts involving American identity, travel, sports, holidays, or news about the United States. People often use it to signal national pride, support for U.S. teams, or simply to indicate a location. It can also mark content as American in origin. Usage varies, and in some contexts the flag carries political or patriotic connotations, so its tone depends on the surrounding conversation.
Flag: United States — Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.
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Unicode data
U+1F1FA U+1F1F8flag: United StatesF0 9F 87 BA F0 9F 87 B8Shortcodes
:flag_united_states:HTML & CSS
🇺🇸🇺🇸\1F1FA \1F1F8 Languages
\u{1F1FA}\u{1F1F8}\U0001F1FA\U0001F1F8\x{1F1FA}\x{1F1F8}\u{1F1FA}\u{1F1F8}Encodings
xn--w77hd%F0%9F%87%BA%F0%9F%87%B8Frequently asked
What does 🇺🇸 flag: United States mean?
The flag of the United States, shown as thirteen horizontal red and white stripes with a blue canton containing white stars. It represents the country itself and commonly appears in contexts involving American identity, travel, sports, holidays, or news about the United States. People often use it to signal national pride, support for U.S. teams, or simply to indicate a location. It can also mark content as American in origin. Usage varies, and in some contexts the flag carries political or patriotic connotations, so its tone depends on the surrounding conversation.
What are the Unicode codepoints and shortcode for 🇺🇸 flag: United States?
U+1F1FA U+1F1F8 (Unicode 6.0, 2010) · :flag_united_states:
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