The flag: Samoa emoji plants you right in the South Pacific, with a blazing red field and a deep-blue canton in the top-left featuring five crisp white stars of the Southern Cross. On Apple/iOS it shows as a clean, rectangular flag with rounded corners, no pole, vivid red, and a bold navy canton—those sharp, evenly spaced stars are the instant giveaway that you’re looking at Samoa (no Union Jack here, so it’s not NZ or Australia). People drop it to rep Samoan heritage, shout “Talofa!”, celebrate Manu Samoa rugby wins, or set island vibes next to 🌴🌊🌺. It also pops up in travel flexes (Upolu, Savai’i, Apia mentions), foodie posts (umu feasts, palusami, oka i’a), and culture shout-outs (fa’a Samoa, tatau, ‘ava ceremonies, siva afi).
Online, it’s meme fuel for time-zone jokes—Samoa famously jumped the international date line in 2011, so it’s one of the first places to ring in the New Year while American Samoa next door is almost a day behind. You’ll see it used playfully with “uce/uso” slang among friends, or flirtatiously paired with 🌺 when someone’s bringing tropical-soft launch energy. During rugby sevens season, the emoji is basically a rally flag; during holiday countdowns, it turns into a “we’re already in tomorrow” flex. Tiny flag, huge vibes.
The country of Samoa is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1436 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 WS Samoa |
| 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) | 1f1fc, 1f1f8 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1FC, U+1F1F8 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127484, 127480 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBC, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 BC, F0 9F 87 B8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 274, 360 237 207 270 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDFC, 0xD83C 0xDDF8 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddfc, d83cddf8 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56828, 55356 56824 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1FC 0x0001F1F8 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1FC, 01F1F8 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127484, 127480 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1FC\U0001F1F8" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xbc\xf0\x9f\x87\xb8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDFC\uD83C\uDDF8" |
