Flags · Emoji 0.6
Flag: Italy Emoji
Generally, when someone sends the 🇮🇹 emoji, they’re just referencing Italy. It’s a simple way to add a bit of context to a message about something related to the country.
Also searched as italian emoji.
The 🇮🇹 emoji is the Italian flag.
- Unicode
- U+1F1EE U+1F1F9
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :it:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🇮🇹 Flag: Italy emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
02 — Platforms
Flag: Italy emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the flag: italy as 5 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Flag: Italy emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :it:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F1EE.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🇮🇹 Flag: Italy emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Flag: Italy emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the flag: italy 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: Italy emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around flag: italy 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: italy and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 🇮🇹 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
09 — Related
Emojis similar to the Flag: Italy emoji
Same family (country-flag) — often confused with flag: italy or used alongside it.
Flags →
Flag: Bhutan
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
Flag: Cambodia
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: Italy
Code: U+1F1EE U+1F1F9 · added 2010
Shortcode: :it:
Generally, when someone sends the 🇮🇹 emoji, they’re just referencing Italy.
Unicode name: Flag: Bhutan
Code: U+1F1E7 U+1F1F9 · added 2015
Shortcode: :flag-bt:
Generally, when someone uses the 🇧🇹 emoji, they’re simply referencing the flag of Bhutan.
11 — History
Where the 🇮🇹 Flag: Italy 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+1F1EE U+1F1F9 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 EB0F, SoftBank E50F.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Flag: Italy was approved as U+1F1EE U+1F1F9 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