Paris supplied two of these three colors first: blue and red were the city's own, worn on cockades during the 1789 revolution, with white folded in from the old royal flag before the vertical order was fixed in 1794. It flies for Bastille Day, a French football chant, or signing off "vive la France."
What 🇫🇷 means
A vertical triband of navy blue, white and red, stretching from the left to the right border of the rectangular flag. The 🇫🇷 Flag: France emoji refers to the west European country, France, officially known as the French Republic.
This emoji is shown as 'FR' on some platforms.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇫🇷 France Flag
- 🇫🇷 Flag of the French Republic
- 🇫🇷 French Flag
- 🇫🇷 Regional Indicator Symbol Letters FR
- 🇫🇷 Country Code - FR
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1EB U+1F1F7- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:fr::flag-fr:Slack:flag_fr:Discord- Keywords
- flag
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🇫🇷 Flag: France or 🕞 Three-thirty?