This bold beauty reps Papua New Guinea with a dramatic diagonal split: rich red up top-right, deep black bottom-left. On Apple/iOS, it’s a crisp, rounded-rectangle flag with five sharp white stars forming the Southern Cross on the black side, and a golden Raggiana bird-of-paradise in elegant silhouette—long tail plumes flowing—on the red. It screams Southern Hemisphere vibes and bird-of-paradise energy, so people drop it for Pacific pride, rugby league hype, diving trips, or when they’re feeling a little extra. The flag’s design story is iconic too—created in 1971 by teenager Susan Karike—so it carries a cool “young, gifted, and bold” legacy.
Online, it pops up in travel flex posts (“Off to Port Moresby, wish me luck!”), diaspora check-ins, and sports threads cheering the Kumuls. Meme twist: folks sometimes use it alongside jokes about the image file format—“That’s a PNG? No, THIS is a PNG.” It can also be a cheeky stand-in for “exotic glow-up” when someone’s flaunting vibrant fits or festival looks, channeling sing-sing spectacle. Pair it with bird and star emojis for ultimate aesthetic, or drop it solo to rep Melanesia with style.
The country of Papua New Guinea is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1262 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 PG Papua New Guinea |
| 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) | 1f1f5, 1f1ec |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F5, U+1F1EC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127477, 127468 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB5, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B5, F0 9F 87 AC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 265, 360 237 207 254 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF5, 0xD83C 0xDDEC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf5, d83cddec |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56821, 55356 56812 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F5 0x0001F1EC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F5, 01F1EC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127477, 127468 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F5\U0001F1EC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb5\xf0\x9f\x87\xac" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF5\uD83C\uDDEC" |
