Three saints, one flag: the Union Jack layers England's red cross of St George over Scotland's white saltire of St Andrew and Ireland's red diagonal for St Patrick, a combination locked in by the Act of Union in 1801. It gets flown for British sports, royal news, or just to show you're from the UK without typing it out.
What 🇬🇧 means
A navy blue flag centrally designed with a thick, red '+' sign bordered by thin white lines, behind which is an 'X' mark made with two white stripes detailed with a thin red line running in the middle.
The 🇬🇧 Flag: United Kingdom emoji refers to the north European country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Often generalized as Britain or Great Britain, this emoji is shown as 'GB' on some platforms.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇬🇧 UK Flag
- 🇬🇧 Flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- 🇬🇧 British Flag
- 🇬🇧 Flag of Great Britain
- 🇬🇧 Union Jack
- 🇬🇧 Blue Ensign
- 🇬🇧 Regional Indicator Symbol Letters GB
- 🇬🇧 Country Code - GB
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1EC U+1F1E7- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:gb::uk:GitHub · Slack:flag-gb:Slack:flag_gb: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: United Kingdom or 🇹🇹 Flag: Trinidad & Tobago?