Flag: Japan Emoji
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What does the Flag: Japan emoji mean?
1
The Japanese naval ensign went on to influence other flag designs. What looks like one symbol is a flag sequence: 🇯 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter J plus 🇵 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter P, joined by the font rather than by the keyboard.
2
An image of the flag of Japan, the birthplace of emojis. It features a crisp white field with a bright red circle at the center, symbolizing the sun at sunrise — a nod to the islands’ eastern location. This flag was approved as far back as the thirteenth century.
When referring to Japan, you can use this emoji as a compact shorthand. The flag instantly evokes the eastern country.
Also Known As
- 🇯🇵 Japanese Flag
- 🇯🇵 Regional Indicator Symbol Letters JP
Apple Name
- 🇯🇵 Flag of Japan
Unicode Name
- 🇯🇵 Flag: Japan
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🇯🇵 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F1EF U+1F1F5
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack
- works in Slack
- works in Emojipedia
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%87%AF%F0%9F%87%B5 |
| Punycode | xn--n77hma |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 87 AF F0 9F 87 B5 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDDEF\uD83C\uDDF5 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f1ef\U0001f1f5 |
| CSS | \01F1EF \01F1F5 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F1EF}\u{1F1F5} |
| Perl | \x{1F1EF}\x{1F1F5} |
| HTML hex | 🇯🇵 |
| HTML dec | 🇯🇵 |