The flag: Cyprus emoji shows a bright white field with a copper-orange silhouette of the island floating above two crossed green olive branches—literal peace under the map. It pops up in captions about sun-drenched getaways, halloumi obsession posts, Euro football hype, Eurovision stanning, and diaspora pride check-ins. It’s also one of the rare flags with a map on it, which the internet gleefully points out by comparing the island’s shape to a chicken nugget or a sweet potato—no shade, just memes. The coppery color nods to Cyprus’s historic copper ties, while the olive branches say “be nice” in botanical form.
On Apple devices, it appears as a gently waving rectangle on a sleek metallic pole, crisp white background, centered orange-gold island, and two dark-green sprigs neatly crossed below—clean, minimal, instantly recognizable. People drop it to signal Mediterranean summer energy, beach selfies from Ayia Napa, Limassol food crawls, or “I found real halloumi 😍” moments. It can carry a thoughtful tone in conversations about the island’s delicate politics, using the olive branches as a subtle peace vibe without spelling anything out. For maximum aesthetic, users pair it with sun, wave, olive, and cheese emojis to broadcast “vacay mode: activated.”
The country of Cyprus is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1257 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters CY Cyprus |
| 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, 1f1fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E8, U+1F1FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127464, 127486 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A8, F0 9F 87 BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 250, 360 237 207 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE8, 0xD83C 0xDDFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde8, d83cddfe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56808, 55356 56830 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E8 0x0001F1FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E8, 01F1FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127464, 127486 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E8\U0001F1FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa8\xf0\x9f\x87\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDFE" |
