The Portugal flag emoji is your shortcut to Iberian pride, custard‑tart flexes, and CR7‑level victory laps. People drop 🇵🇹 during football matches for the Seleção, when they nail a pastel de nata recipe, or whenever a fado‑fueled wave of saudade hits. It shows up in travel posts from Lisbon’s miradouros, Porto wine tastings, and Algarve beach brags, often paired with a tram, sunset, or clinking glasses. Online, Portuguese users and diaspora (“Tuga” crew) use it to mark language switches, celebrate wins, or jokingly defend bacalhau supremacy.
On Apple devices, it appears as a rectangular flag with soft folds: a dark green panel at the hoist and a larger bright red field, overlapped by a golden armillary sphere carrying the national shield with five blue quinas and tiny white dots, bordered by red with yellow castles—super detailed for such a tiny pixel rectangle. That green‑red split and ornate crest make it instantly recognizable, so it rarely gets mistaken for other flags unless someone’s scrolling at 2 a.m. with low brightness. In memes, you’ll see it next to a goat or soccer ball for Ronaldo energy, or paired with a ship emoji to wink at the Age of Discovery. It can be flirty or dramatic—dropped after an “obrigado/obrigada bb,” thrown in a Euro Cup hype thread, or used ironically when someone calls pastel de nata “just a custard cupcake.” Expect it in Lisbon vs. Porto banter, azulejo photos, sardine‑festival snaps, and any post screaming “saudade vibes.” Bonus: if someone types “Siiiiuu” with this flag, prepare for celebratory jump spins and a timeline full of green and red.
This flag represents the country of Portugal.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1016 of 2393 |
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| 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 PT Portugal |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| 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, 1f1f9 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F5, U+1F1F9 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127477, 127481 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB5, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB9 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B5, F0 9F 87 B9 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 265, 360 237 207 271 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF5, 0xD83C 0xDDF9 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf5, d83cddf9 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56821, 55356 56825 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F5 0x0001F1F9 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F5, 01F1F9 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127477, 127481 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F5\U0001F1F9" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb5\xf0\x9f\x87\xb9" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF5\uD83C\uDDF9" |
