| Emoji | 🇦🇪 |
| Name | flag: United Arab Emirates |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F1E6 U+1F1EA |
| Category | Flags |
| Subcategory | Country Flag |
| Emoji Version | 2 |
| Tags | AE, flag |
| Decimal Value | 127462 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F1E6-1F1EA |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 🇦 / 🇦-1F1EA; |
The flag: United Arab Emirates emoji displays a flag, used to represent a country, region, or affiliation — commonly seen in social media bios, sports commentary, travel posts, and international conversations to indicate nationality, location, or support.
Category context: The Flags category represents national, regional, and subdivision flags using a special Unicode mechanism — most country flags are built from pairs of "regional indicator" letter characters rather than being single dedicated flag characters.
Cataloged under Country Flag within the Flags category, flag: United Arab Emirates is the 3rd of 270 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 2 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is built from multiple combined Unicode code points (a "sequence") rather than a single character — a common technique for representing flags, family groups, and complex expressions. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F1E6 U+1F1EA.
💡 Good to know: Most country flag emoji are technically built from two "regional indicator symbol" characters representing the country's ISO code (like the letters for its two-letter country code) — your device combines them into a flag automatically.