Flags · Emoji 0.6
Flag: France Emoji
Generally, it just means "France." People use it to signal they're talking about the country or something French.
The 🇫🇷 emoji is the flag of France.
- Unicode
- U+1F1EB U+1F1F7
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :fr:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🇫🇷 Flag: France emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Flag: France emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F1EB — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your flag: france looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Flag: France emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :fr:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the flag: france, code point U+1F1EB.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🇫🇷 Flag: France emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Flag: France emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the flag: france as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Flag: France emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around flag: france for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🇫🇷 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the flag: france and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 🇫🇷 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F1EB, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
09 — Related
Emojis similar to the Flag: France emoji
Same family (country-flag) — often confused with flag: france or used alongside it.
Flags →
Flag: Bermuda
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Flag: Bolivia
Flag: Bosnia & Herzegovina
Flag: Botswana
Flag: Brazil
Flag: British Indian Ocean Territory
Flag: British Virgin Islands
Flag: Brunei
Flag: Bulgaria
Flag: Burkina Faso
Flag: Burundi
Collections 🇫🇷 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
10 — Difference
🇫🇷 vs 🇧🇲 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Flag: France
Code: U+1F1EB U+1F1F7 · added 2010
Shortcode: :fr:
Generally, it just means "France."
Unicode name: Flag: Bermuda
Code: U+1F1E7 U+1F1F2 · added 2015
Shortcode: :flag-bm:
Generally, it just means Bermuda.
11 — History
Where the 🇫🇷 Flag: France emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F1EB U+1F1F7 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🇫🇷 existed there as
KDDI au EAFA, SoftBank E50D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Flag: France was approved as U+1F1EB U+1F1F7 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🇫🇷 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ