Flags · Emoji 0.6
Flag: United States Emoji
It usually just means “the United States.” People use it to quickly represent America in a text.
The 🇺🇸 emoji is the flag of the United States.
- Unicode
- U+1F1FA U+1F1F8
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :us:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🇺🇸 Flag: United States emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
02 — Platforms
Flag: United States emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F1FA. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Flag: United States 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 :us:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F1FA.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🇺🇸 Flag: United States emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Flag: United States emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the flag: united states 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: United States emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around flag: united states 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 🇺🇸 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the flag: united states lands changes how it is taken.
09 — Related
Emojis similar to the Flag: United States emoji
Same family (country-flag) — often confused with flag: united states 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: United States
Code: U+1F1FA U+1F1F8 · added 2010
Shortcode: :us:
It usually just means “the United States.”
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: United States 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+1F1FA U+1F1F8 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 E573, SoftBank E50C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Flag: United States was approved as U+1F1FA U+1F1F8 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