Russia flag is the Russian flag emoji: the letters R and U, stored side by side and drawn as one picture. It is one of the ten flags of Emoji 0.6, the oldest set.
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White, blue, red from the top
The flag is three equal bands, white over blue over red, and is 2 units high to 3 wide. Russia flag block, two to three keeps that shape in squares. A row of hearts or circles runs left to right, so it gives the colours in order and not the flag.
Three flags easy to mix up
Slovakia flag and Slovenia flag use the same bands in the same order, each with a coat of arms at the hoist side. Serbia flag turns them over: red, blue, white. Its letters are R and S, one letter from RU, so read the name under the tile.
U then R is not in Unicode's flag list, so the two letters only make a flag in the order R, U.
Flag Day in August is for 22 August, the day the tricolour was readopted in 1991. Russia Day is 12 June.
Questions and answers
Is there a Russia emoji besides the flag?
One. CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files a single emoji under russia: Nesting dolls, from Emoji 13.0, which also answers to matryoshka and babushka. It has a tile here, alone and beside the flag.
Is there a Russian flag emoticon?
No standard one. Russia flag in keyboard characters is the nearest thing: a frame with a blank row for white, a row of B for blue and a row of R for red.
Why does the Russian flag emoji copy and paste as RU?
The emoji is those two letters. Unicode's emoji standard lets a system with no picture for the pair show each one as a letter, so R and U appear. Paste the same thing where flags are drawn and the flag is back.
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Flag and letters 4
🇷 🇺R and U held apart by a space, so they stay two letters
🇷Regional indicator RU+1F1F7 Regional indicator symbol letter R. The first half of the flag. Alone it is a letter and no flag.
🇺Regional indicator UU+1F1FA Regional indicator symbol letter U. The second half. R then U makes the flag. U then R is not in Unicode's flag list.
🇷🇺Russia flagU+1F1F7 U+1F1FA. The Russian flag emoji: regional indicator R, then regional indicator U, shown as one flag. One of the ten flags of the oldest emoji set. CLDR gives it a single search word, flag. Emoji 0.6.
As text 8
Москва 🇷🇺Moskva, the capital, in Russian
Привет 🇷🇺Privet, an informal hello
РоссияRussia in Russian: six Cyrillic letters
🇷🇺 Россия 🇷🇺The Cyrillic name between two flags
🇷🇺 𝗥𝗨𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗔 🇷🇺RUSSIA in bold sans-serif capitals
🇷🇺 +7Flag and the calling code
RUPlain RU, what a system with no flag pictures shows
🇷🇺 RUFlag and the two-letter country code
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White, blue, red 4
⚪🔵🔴Bands in circlesWhite circle, then blue circle, then red circle. All three are from Emoji 0.6, the oldest set.
🤍💙❤️Bands in heartsWhite heart, then blue heart, then red heart. White, blue, red: the bands from the top down, read left to right. White heart is from Emoji 12.0.
⬜🟦🟥Bands in squaresWhite large square, then blue square, then red square. The blue and red squares are from Emoji 12.0.
⬜🟦🟥⬜🟦🟥⬜🟦🟥Tricolour ribbonWhite, blue and red squares, three times over, as a divider line.
Look-alike flags 5
🇳🇱Netherlands flagU+1F1F3 U+1F1F1. Red, white and blue bands. Wikipedia records two accounts that connect the origin of the Russian flag to the Dutch tricolour. Emoji 2.0.
🇷🇺 RU, 🇷🇸 RSRussia and Serbia with their letters, to tell them apart
🇷🇸Serbia flagU+1F1F7 U+1F1F8. The same three colours the other way up: red on top, blue, white at the bottom. Its letters are R and S, one letter from RU. Emoji 2.0.
🇸🇰Slovakia flagU+1F1F8 U+1F1F0. White, blue and red in the same order as Russia, with the coat of arms at the hoist side. Its letters are S and K. Emoji 2.0.
🇸🇮Slovenia flagU+1F1F8 U+1F1EE. White on top, then blue, then red, with the coat of arms in the upper hoist side. Its letters are S and I. Emoji 2.0.
Dolls and ruble 4
🇷🇺 ₽Flag and the ruble sign, U+20BD
🇷🇺🪆Flag and nesting dollsFlag: Russia, then nesting dolls. The flag with the only emoji filed under russia.
🪆Nesting dollsU+1FA86. The one emoji CLDR files under russia. Its other search words include matryoshka and babushka. Emoji 13.0.
₽Ruble signU+20BD Ruble sign. The sign of the Russian ruble. A text character, not an emoji.
Days and places 9
🇷🇺🕚Eleven time zonesFlag: Russia, then eleven o’clock. Russia spans eleven time zones.
🇷🇺🗓️Flag Day in AugustFlag: Russia, then spiral calendar. 22 August, National Flag Day: the tricolour was readopted on 22 August 1991.
✈️🇷🇺Flight to RussiaAirplane, then flag: Russia. For the travel post.
🇷🇺❤️Heart for RussiaFlag: Russia, then red heart.
🗺️🇷🇺Largest countryWorld map, then flag: Russia. Russia is the largest country in the world.
🇷🇺🏙️Moscow skylineFlag: Russia, then cityscape. Moscow is the capital and the largest city.
📍🇷🇺Pinned in RussiaRound pushpin, then flag: Russia. For the location line of a bio.
🇷🇺🎆Russia DayFlag: Russia, then fireworks. 12 June, the national holiday, held every year since 1992. Wikipedia lists flag hoisting, parades and fireworks.
🚂🛤️🇷🇺Trans-Siberian RailwayLocomotive, then railway track, then flag: Russia. The longest railway line in the world, from Moscow to Vladivostok.
Flag blocks 4
Russia flag block in heartsThree rows of six hearts.
Russia flag block, smallThree rows of five squares, one row to a band. Not to scale. It pastes as three lines.
Russia flag block, two to threeSix rows of nine squares, two rows to a band: the flag's own shape, 2 high to 3 wide. In a box narrower than nine emoji the rows wrap.
Russia flag in keyboard charactersA blank row for white, B for blue, R for red. Keyboard characters only.