Copy the most used flag emojis in one click — 🚩 🏁 🏳️ 🏴 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇧🇷 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 — with their meaning, Unicode and HTML codes, and keyboard shortcuts for Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android.
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Flag emojis cover symbolic flags and the most searched national flags. Click any emoji to copy it instantly.
Each flag emoji has a precise meaning — country, signal or symbol. National flag emojis are formed from two Unicode regional indicator letters corresponding to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code.
Flag emoji sequences ready to copy and paste to indicate a country, celebrate an event or enrich your multilingual messages.
Technical codes for each flag emoji: Unicode regional character sequences and HTML entities.
| Emoji | Name | Unicode | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red flag |
U+1F6A9
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🚩
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| Chequered flag |
U+1F3C1
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🏁
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| White flag |
U+1F3F3
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🏳
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| Black flag |
U+1F3F4
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🏴
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| Rainbow flag |
U+1F3F3 U+200D U+1F308
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🏳‍🌈
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| Pirate flag |
U+1F3F4 U+200D U+2620
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🏴‍☠
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| France |
U+1F1EB U+1F1F7
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🇫🇷
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| United States |
U+1F1FA U+1F1F8
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🇺🇸
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| United Kingdom |
U+1F1EC U+1F1E7
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🇬🇧
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| Germany |
U+1F1E9 U+1F1EA
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🇩🇪
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| Spain |
U+1F1EA U+1F1F8
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🇪🇸
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| Brazil |
U+1F1E7 U+1F1F7
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🇧🇷
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| Italy |
U+1F1EE U+1F1F9
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🇮🇹
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| Japan |
U+1F1EF U+1F1F5
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🇯🇵
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| Canada |
U+1F1E8 U+1F1E6
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🇨🇦
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| Australia |
U+1F1E6 U+1F1FA
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🇦🇺
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The 🚩 emoji (U+1F6A9, "Triangular Flag on Post") shows a small red triangular flag planted on a post. Originally a physical danger signal, it has become one of the most popular emojis in internet culture through the "red flag" concept — a warning sign in a relationship, situation or behaviour that should raise concern.
On TikTok and Twitter/X, the "red flags" trend exploded: users list problematic behaviours of a partner or situation accompanied by 🚩. Some messages pile up dozens of 🚩🚩🚩 to signal a catastrophic situation. It is one of the emojis whose usage has changed most in recent years.
National flag emojis (🇫🇷 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 etc.) are formed from two Unicode characters called "regional indicators". Each letter of the alphabet has its regional equivalent, and the combination of two letters corresponding to a country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code produces that country's flag emoji. For example, FR (France) gives 🇫🇷, US (United States) gives 🇺🇸.
This means national flags are not single characters but sequences of two characters. They display correctly on most modern platforms — iOS, Android, Windows 11, macOS — but may appear as two letters on some older systems.
Yes. 🚩, 🏁, 🏳️, 🇫🇷, 🇺🇸 and all flag emojis on this page are standard Unicode characters that work on WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, Facebook, Telegram, Discord, Gmail and Outlook.
The appearance of national flags varies by platform — some like X display code letters instead of the flag on Windows — but the copied character is identical everywhere. Click any emoji to copy it and paste it directly into your message.