0001F1E6

0001F1E6, or U+1F1E6 in Unicode notation, is the REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER A. It is the first character in the Regional Indicator Symbols block, which ranges from U+1F1E6 to U+1F1FF and is used to encode ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes for emoji flags.

In practice, regional indicator symbols are not typically used alone to represent a country. Instead, pairs of these symbols are combined to form a single flag emoji. For example, the pair U+1F1FA U+1F1F8 (letters U and S) renders as the flag of the United States on platforms that support emoji rendering. The appearance of these symbols depends on the device and font; some environments may show them as text indicators rather than as a flag.

The Regional Indicator Symbols are treated as emoji-like pictographs with the Extended_Pictographic property in Unicode. They were added in Unicode version 6.0 (2009) to enable the representation of national flags through text sequences.

See also: Regional Indicator Symbols block, flag emoji, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.