U+1F3C1 Chequered Flag
U+1F3C1 was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (2010). It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as motor sports.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F3C1 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “chequered flag” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: checkered, chequered, chequered flag, racing.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🏁︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Racing flags are traditionally used in auto racing and similar motorsports to indicate track condition and to communicate important messages to drivers. Typically, the starter, sometimes the grand marshal of a race, waves the flags atop a flag stand near the start/finish line. Track marshals are also stationed at observation posts along the race track in order to communicate both local and course-wide conditions to drivers. Alternatively, some race tracks employ lights to supplement the primary flag at the start/finish line.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 127937 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 8F 81 |
| UTF-16 | D8 3C DF C1 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F3 C1 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%8F%81 |
| HTML hex reference | 🏁 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ðŸ |
| alias | motor sports |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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| 6.0 (2010) | |
| CHEQUERED FLAG | |
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| None | |
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| Chequered Flag | |
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| NA | |
| Other | |
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| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Chequered Flag | |
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| Other | |
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| Chequered Flag | |
| None | |
| Wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
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| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Chequered Flag | |
| U |