The Cuba flag emoji waves in with Caribbean swagger: a bold red triangle at the hoist, a crisp white five-point star, and five horizontal stripes alternating blue and white (blue on top and bottom). On Apple devices it appears as a glossy, gently-waving rectangle—clean lines, saturated colors, and that sharp star you spot even at thumbnail size. People drop it to rep Cuban heritage, hype a Havana getaway, soundtrack a salsa/timba playlist, or flex culinary plans (hello, Cuban sandwich, maduros, and a mojito that low‑key tastes like vacation). It also shows up in baseball chats when a Cuban player goes yard, and in retro-aesthetic posts featuring classic cars, pastel facades, and a golden-hour stroll on the Malecón.
Online, it can be playful or dramatic: “I listened to one Buena Vista Social Club track and now I’m this 🇨🇺,” or tossed next to a mojito emoji for flirty Havana‑night energy. Memers use it when turning any room into a dance floor or when your Spotify suddenly sounds like a rooftop in Vedado. Culturally, the flag is instantly recognizable worldwide—stripes, triangle, star—evoking Cuba’s music, dance, rum, and storied history without needing a caption.
This flag represents the country of Cuba.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1043 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters CU Cuba |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🇨🇺 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🇨🇺 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇨 🇺 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇨 🇺 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1e8, 1f1fa |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E8, U+1F1FA |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127464, 127482 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBA |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A8, F0 9F 87 BA |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 250, 360 237 207 272 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE8, 0xD83C 0xDDFA |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde8, d83cddfa |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56808, 55356 56826 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E8 0x0001F1FA |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E8, 01F1FA |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127464, 127482 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E8\U0001F1FA" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa8\xf0\x9f\x87\xba" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDFA" |
