Scotland Flag Emoji

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Scotland Flag Emoji

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland flag7 charactersReady to copy

42 items. Tap one to copy it.

Flag and parts 5

As text 8

Blue and white 4

Diagonal crosses 8

Unicorn and lion 3

Days and places 9

Flag blocks 5

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How it works

Scotland flag is the Scotland emoji: the Saltire, a white diagonal cross on blue. Most flag emoji are two letters. This one is Black flag with a hidden code after it, one of only three flags made that way.

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Three flags of one kind

After the black flag come tag characters nobody sees. They spell gbsct, the code GB-SCT without its hyphen, and a last one closes the sequence. England flag and Wales flag are the other two on Unicode's recommended list, with gbeng and gbwls.

A cross you can type

Unicode has a text character named Saltire, the word for a diagonal cross and one of the flag's names. The cross runs corner to corner, so Scotland flag block, small can draw it in fifteen squares, 3 high and 5 wide, the shape the flag most often has.

Questions and answers

Why is the Scotland flag emoji a black flag?

Nothing went wrong with the copy. The flag is a black flag with invisible tags after it. Unicode's emoji standard says a system with no support for tag sequences displays only the base character, and each platform chooses which of these flags to draw.

What is the Scotland emoji?

The flag, and nothing else by name: CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files no emoji under scotland or scottish. Unicorn is a second choice with a reason, because the unicorn is Scotland's national animal. The thistle, the floral emblem, has no emoji.

How do you type a Scotland flag emoticon?

This page draws one. Scotland flag in keyboard characters is typed on a keyboard from start to end: a frame, and slashes that meet at an X in the middle.

What blue is the Scotland flag?

Pantone 300. Flags had ranged from sky blue to navy, Wikipedia records, and in 2003 a committee of the Scottish Parliament recommended that shade. #005EB8 is the same blue for a screen.

All 42 items

Flag and parts 5

  • Black flag U+1F3F4. The first character of the Scotland flag. A system that does not know tag sequences shows this alone, because the tag letters after it are invisible. Emoji 1.0.
  • England flag U+1F3F4 U+E0067 U+E0062 U+E0065 U+E006E U+E0067 U+E007F. Built like the Scotland flag: a black flag, the tag letters gbeng and a closing tag. Emoji 5.0.
  • 🏴 gbsct What is inside the emoji, spelled out: the black flag, then the letters its hidden tags stand for
  • Scotland flag U+1F3F4 U+E0067 U+E0062 U+E0073 U+E0063 U+E0074 U+E007F. The Scotland flag emoji, the Saltire: a black flag followed by five hidden tag letters, g, b, s, c, t, and a closing tag, shown as one flag. Unicode names it flag: Scotland, and CLDR gives it a single search word, flag. Emoji 5.0.
  • Wales flag U+1F3F4 U+E0067 U+E0062 U+E0077 U+E006C U+E0073 U+E007F. The third flag built this way, with the tag letters gbwls. England, Scotland and Wales are the only three on Unicode's recommended list. Emoji 5.0.
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As text 8

  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗧𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The name in bold capitals, between two flags
  • #005EB8 The flag's blue, Pantone 300, as a web colour
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Alba Scotland in Scottish Gaelic, after the flag
  • Banner o Scotland The flag of Scotland, in Scots
  • Bratach na h-Alba The flag of Scotland, in Scottish Gaelic
  • Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland's capital, with the flag after it
  • GB-SCT The code the tag letters come from. It pastes anywhere, flag or no flag.
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Saltire A name the flag goes by. Another is St Andrew's Cross.

Blue and white 4

  • Blue and white in circles Blue circle, then white circle. Blue circle and white circle are both from Emoji 0.6.
  • Blue and white in hearts Blue heart, then white heart. The two colours of the flag. Blue heart is from Emoji 0.6 and white heart from 12.0.
  • Blue and white in squares Blue square, then white large square. Blue square is from Emoji 12.0.
  • Blue and white ribbon Nine squares, blue and white by turns, as a divider line.

Diagonal crosses 8

  • ☓ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ☓ The flag between two saltires
  • Box diagonal cross U+2573 Box drawings light diagonal cross. Two thin strokes that run to the corners of the character cell, as the cross runs to the corners of the flag.
  • Burundi flag U+1F1E7 U+1F1EE. A white diagonal cross between panels of red and green, with a white disc at its centre. Emoji 2.0.
  • Jamaica flag U+1F1EF U+1F1F2. A gold saltire. Wikipedia records that it has been said to be directly inspired by the flag of Scotland. Emoji 2.0.
  • Jersey flag U+1F1EF U+1F1EA. A red saltire on a white field, with a badge and crown. Emoji 2.0.
  • Saltire U+2613 Saltire. Twelve Unicode characters have saltire in their names, and this one is named Saltire and nothing more. It is plain text, not an emoji.
  • Thin X U+2715 Multiplication x. A lighter diagonal cross, for a line of text.
  • United Kingdom flag U+1F1EC U+1F1E7. Carries Scotland's cross: in it Scotland is represented by the white saltire of Saint Andrew on a blue field. Emoji 0.6.

Unicorn and lion 3

  • Lion Rampant stand-in Yellow square, then lion, then yellow square. A stand-in for the Lion Rampant, the royal banner of Scotland: a red lion on a yellow field. No emoji shows it. The Saltire is the flag for private individuals to fly.
  • Unicorn U+1F984. The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn, a Scottish heraldic symbol since the 12th century. Emoji 1.0.
  • Unicorn and flag Unicorn, then flag: Scotland. The unicorn beside the flag.

Days and places 9

  • Ben Nevis Mountain, then flag: Scotland. The highest mountain in Scotland.
  • Edinburgh Castle Castle, then flag: Scotland. Castle Rock, in the capital, is the site of Edinburgh Castle.
  • Flight to Scotland Airplane, then flag: Scotland. For a holiday post.
  • Heart for Scotland Flag: Scotland, then blue heart.
  • Hogmanay Fireworks, then flag: Scotland. The Scots word for the last day of the old year.
  • Home of golf Flag in hole, then flag: Scotland. The modern game of golf originated in 15th-century Scotland.
  • Nessie Sauropod, then water wave, then flag: Scotland. The Loch Ness Monster, a mythical creature of Scottish folklore, often described as large and long-necked. The emoji is a sauropod, a dinosaur.
  • Pinned in Scotland Round pushpin, then flag: Scotland. For a bio line that says where you are.
  • St Andrew's Day Flag: Scotland, then spiral calendar. 30 November, Scotland's national day.

Flag blocks 5

  • Saltire block, square Five rows of five: the cross alone, corner to corner, for a square picture.
  • Scotland flag block in circles The small block in circles, which are from Emoji 0.6.
  • Scotland flag block, large Five rows of nine squares. The white cross steps two squares sideways on each row, so it needs a box nine emoji wide.
  • Scotland flag block, small Three rows of five squares: white at the four corners and in the middle.
  • Scotland flag in keyboard characters A frame of plus and minus signs, with slashes that meet at an X.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-16 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); each flag was checked against the lists of recommended flag and tag sequences, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-sequences.txt). In that list the Scotland flag is U+1F3F4 U+E0067 U+E0062 U+E0073 U+E0063 U+E0074 U+E007F, a black flag, the tag letters g, b, s, c, t and a cancel tag, Emoji 5.0, and it is one of three recommended tag sequences, with the flags of England and Wales. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml): flag is the only word listed for the Scotland flag, no emoji is listed under scotland, scottish, saltire, thistle, tartan, kilt or bagpipes, and unicorn is listed for one emoji. Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), where twelve characters have saltire in their names, U+2613 is named Saltire alone and none of the twelve is an emoji. Unicode Technical Standard 51, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/), Annex C, gives the black flag as the base of a flag tag sequence, says that a system with no support for tag sequences displays only the base character because the tag characters are invisible, names GB-SCT as the subdivision code written with a hyphen, and leaves it to each platform which of these flags it supports. Unicode data is used under the Unicode terms of use (https://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html). Facts about the flag, the country and its days are restated from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): a white saltire on a blue field, also known as St Andrew's Cross or the Saltire, bratach na h-Alba in Scottish Gaelic and Banner o Scotland in Scots, proportions not fixed with 3:5 most commonly used, shades that ranged from sky blue to navy blue, Pantone 300 (#005EB8 as a web colour) recommended by a committee of the Scottish Parliament in 2003, the Saltire and not the royal standard as the flag for private individuals to fly, and the Lion Rampant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Scotland); the red lion on a yellow field (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Banner_of_Scotland); a saltire as a diagonal cross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire); the white saltire of Saint Andrew in the flag of the United Kingdom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Jack); the gold saltire of Jamaica and the statement that it has been said to be inspired by the flag of Scotland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Jamaica); the red saltire of Jersey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Jersey); the white diagonal cross of Burundi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Burundi); Alba, Edinburgh as capital, St Andrew's Day on 30 November as the national day and the unicorn as the national animal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland); the thistle as the floral emblem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thistle); Hogmanay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogmanay); the origin of golf (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf); Ben Nevis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nevis); the Loch Ness Monster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster); Edinburgh and the site of its castle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh). Left out: any claim about how a maker draws the flag or which systems show it, and every person, border and battle. The combos, text lines and flag blocks are our own. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text lines, the flag blocks and the notes are ours. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia are restated in our own words and credited in the source line.

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