The flag: Senegal arrives as a vertical tricolor—green, yellow, red—with a crisp green five-pointed star parked right in the center of the yellow stripe. On Apple/iOS, it shows up as a clean, slightly waving rectangle with bold, saturated hues, rounded corners, and no flagpole; the emerald star is perfectly centered and instantly recognizable. It’s the kind of tidy, photo-ready flag that looks like it ironed itself before entering your chat.
Online, this emoji is a go-to for pride posts, football hype (Sadio Mané stans, assemble), and travel flexes from Dakar to Gorée Island to the pink shimmer of Lake Retba. People drop it in victory threads during AFCON, pair it with a lion, drums, and green hearts, and—when the jollof wars ignite—wave it like a chef’s-kiss mic drop, nodding to thieboudienne’s legendary status. You might also see it in diaspora shout-outs, “teranga” hospitality vibes, or a quick “Nanga def?” check-in, sometimes flirty, sometimes just friendly neighborhood West African energy. In meme mode, it’s the flag you post when the mbalax drums hit, the dance floor calls, and your timeline turns into a block party.
Culturally, the colors echo Pan-African unity, and the star channels hope and guidance; April 4 is Independence Day (1960), a date that often fills feeds with 🇸🇳 + fireworks. Think Youssou N’Dour soundtracking your scroll, Ousmane Sembène cinema brain-rot, and Dakar’s hustle—equal parts art, speed, and style—throwing winks from the timeline.
The country of Senegal is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 962 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 SN Senegal |
| 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) | 1f1f8, 1f1f3 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F8, U+1F1F3 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127480, 127475 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB3 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B8, F0 9F 87 B3 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 270, 360 237 207 263 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF8, 0xD83C 0xDDF3 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf8, d83cddf3 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56824, 55356 56819 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F8 0x0001F1F3 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F8, 01F1F3 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127480, 127475 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F8\U0001F1F3" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb8\xf0\x9f\x87\xb3" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF8\uD83C\uDDF3" |
