The flag: China emoji is that bold red rectangle with one big gold star and four smaller stars huddled in the top-left—like a headliner with a loyal hype squad. On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy, gently waving banner on a silver pole, angled slightly, with crisp five-pointed yellow stars popping against deep red and a subtle 3D fabric ripple. The design is instantly recognizable worldwide, echoing the modern national flag adopted in 1949 without needing any caption. Visually, it screams celebration photos, travel snaps, and team pride the moment it hits your screen.
People drop this emoji for Lunar New Year vibes, dumpling-and-hotpot posts, C-pop/C-drama fangirling, esports wins, study-abroad updates, and “package finally shipped” jokes. It also shows up as a quick location tag for Beijing or Shanghai adventures and diaspora pride in bio lines or grad pics. Internet humor loves the punny angle—“red flag (but literally)”—for playful sarcasm about sus behavior. Used earnestly it’s national representation; used ironically it’s meme seasoning for takes, headlines, and spicy group chats.
Definition
The communist state's red flag symbolizing the bloodshed of countless martyrs and political power.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
671 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Image not available
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:cn:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Regional Indicator Symbol Letters CN China
China Flag
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
Unicode Range
1F173–1F1FF
Unicode Subcategory
Regional Indicator Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Regional Indicator Symbols
Names & Annotations
REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTERS CN Temporary Notes: China
Symbol Information
🇨🇳 U+1F1E8 U+1F1F3 unified
Proposal Identifier
e-4ED
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[中国]
KDDI
#703 中国国旗 U+EB11 SJIS-F3D2 JIS-7A54
Softbank
#430 #old442 国旗(中国) U+E513 SJIS-FBB3
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - 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)
1f1e8, 1f1f3
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F1E8, U+1F1F3
Decimal Code Point(s)
127464, 127475
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB3
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 87 A8, F0 9F 87 B3
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 207 250, 360 237 207 263
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDDE8, 0xD83C 0xDDF3
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdde8, d83cddf3
UTF-16 Dec
55356 56808, 55356 56819
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F1E8 0x0001F1F3
UTF-32 Hex
01F1E8, 01F1F3
UTF-32 Dec
127464, 127475
Python Src
u"\U0001F1E8\U0001F1F3"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x87\xa8\xf0\x9f\x87\xb3"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDF3"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
