The flag: St. Helena emoji shows the Blue Ensign of this South Atlantic British Overseas Territory—basically a navy-blue field with the Union Jack in the top-left and a small shield on the fly side. On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a deep navy rectangle, crisp mini Union Jack, and a tiny coat of arms featuring a golden-yellow cliff, blue water, and a white‑sailed ship; the little bird on the shield (the Saint Helena wirebird) is often too teeny to notice at emoji size. Visually, it reads as “blue UK-adjacent flag with a mini picture,” which is how most people clock it at a glance. Historically, it pings memories of Napoleon’s final exile, which the internet loves to drop for dramatic “I’m disappearing from the group chat” energy.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1076 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Flag of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha St. Helena |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - 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, 1f1ed |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F8, U+1F1ED |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127480, 127469 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B8, F0 9F 87 AD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 270, 360 237 207 255 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF8, 0xD83C 0xDDED |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf8, d83cdded |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56824, 55356 56813 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F8 0x0001F1ED |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F8, 01F1ED |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127480, 127469 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F8\U0001F1ED" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb8\xf0\x9f\x87\xad" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF8\uD83C\uDDED" |