A clean, confident vertical tricolor, the flag of Mali stacks green, yellow, and red from left to right—no star, no emblem, just vibes. On Apple/iOS it shows up as a small, glossy-flat rectangle with slightly rounded corners: deep green at the hoist, warm golden yellow in the middle, and bright red at the fly, evenly spaced and crisp. It’s the Pan‑African palette in minimalist mode, instantly recognizable to anyone who’s scrolled flag keyboards a little too long.
People drop this emoji to rep Malian roots, celebrate AFCON wins for Les Aigles, or soundtrack posts with desert blues (hello, Ali Farka Touré and Tinariwen) and kora magic from Toumani Diabaté. It pops up in West Africa pride threads, Francophone Africa chats, and travel snaps from Bamako, the Niger River, Timbuktu, or the mud-brick masterpiece that is the Great Mosque of Djenné. Meme-wise, it’s the classic “gotcha” in flag quizzes—often mistaken for Guinea (same colors, reversed order) or confused with Senegal (which adds a green star). Quick tip: if there’s a star, it’s not Mali; if it’s just three bold stripes, you’re golden.
You’ll also see it used playfully when someone announces they’re going “off-grid in Timbuktu,” as a wink at disappearing from group chats, or paired with green-yellow-red hearts for Pan-African love. Foodies flex it next to tigadèguèna (maafe) posts, and history nerds pull it out during chats about ancient manuscripts and Sahel trade routes. In short, it’s a small rectangle with big range: culture, music, sport, heritage, and desert-sunset aesthetics—all in three stripes.
This emoji represents the country of Mali.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1045 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 ML Mali |
| 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) | 1f1f2, 1f1f1 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F2, U+1F1F1 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127474, 127473 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB2, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB1 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B2, F0 9F 87 B1 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 262, 360 237 207 261 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF2, 0xD83C 0xDDF1 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf2, d83cddf1 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56818, 55356 56817 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F2 0x0001F1F1 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F2, 01F1F1 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127474, 127473 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F2\U0001F1F1" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb2\xf0\x9f\x87\xb1" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF2\uD83C\uDDF1" |
