🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Flag: Scotland Emoji 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Saltire is Scotland's diagonal white cross on blue, and its origin story is a good one even if historians raise an eyebrow: cloud formations shaped like the cross reportedly appeared before a Pictish win near Athelstaneford around 832 AD. Named for St Andrew, it's the flag draped over shoulders at Murrayfield and Hampden as much as it's a national symbol.

What 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 means

A blue flag with a white 'X' touching all four points of the flag. The 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Flag: Scotland refers to another country in the United Kingdom. Since this flag emoji is sub-divisional, it will appear as a 🏴 Black Flag on platforms that don't support flag emojis.

The flag itself shows the Saltire: a white diagonal cross of St Andrew on sky blue — one of the oldest national flags still flying, and one of the few subdivision flags with its own emoji. As with every flag emoji, it's built from two regional-indicator letters, so a few platforms display the letter pair instead of the artwork.

How and when to use it

Other Names

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Flag of Scotland
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Flag
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scots Flag
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Saltire
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 St. Andrew's Cross

The lowdown

Category: Flags › subdivision-flag
Codepoints: U+1F3F4 U+E0067 U+E0062 U+E0073 U+E0063 U+E0074 U+E007F
Emoji version: Emoji 5.0
Shortcodes: :scotland: GitHub · Discord:flag-scotland: Slack
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.