The flag: North Korea emoji shows a bold red center band flanked by blue stripes with thin white borders, plus the signature white circle containing a red five-pointed star. On Apple/iOS it renders as a clean, rectangular flag with subtle fabric shading—no pole—high-contrast reds and blues, and a crisp white disk that makes the star pop even at tiny sizes.
People use it to reference DPRK news, geopolitics, historical threads about the Korean peninsula, and big-event moments like Olympic appearances or high-stakes summits. In meme-speak it often goes ironic: paired with 🚫📶 or 🔒 to joke about no Wi‑Fi, strict rules, or “my house is basically North Korea” when curfew hits harder than the DMZ. It shows up in headline reactions, think-piece replies, and hot takes about sanctions and diplomacy, usually with a dramatic, breaking-news vibe. The visual cue everyone recognizes is that red star in a white circle—instantly identifiable amid scrolling chaos. Designers and history nerds sometimes mention it alongside retro propaganda aesthetics or the spectacle of Mass Games. Used sparingly, it can read serious, sarcastic, or deadpan—part flag, part vibe check, part world-affairs shorthand.
This flag represents the country of North Korea.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1699 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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| "Short Code" Name | |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters KP North Korea |
| 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) | 1f1f0, 1f1f5 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F0, U+1F1F5 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127472, 127477 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB0, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB5 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B0, F0 9F 87 B5 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 260, 360 237 207 265 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF0, 0xD83C 0xDDF5 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf0, d83cddf5 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56816, 55356 56821 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F0 0x0001F1F5 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F0, 01F1F5 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127472, 127477 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F0\U0001F1F5" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb0\xf0\x9f\x87\xb5" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF0\uD83C\uDDF5" |
