The flag: Mayotte emoji represents the French overseas department of Mayotte, an island duo in the Comoros archipelago chilling in the Mozambique Channel. People drop it to rep island life, shout out Mahoran/Comorian roots, or flex beach-and-lagoon getaways that make your group chat suddenly very quiet. It also pops up in football and handball chatter, travel vlogs, and “Euro in the tropics” jokes, since Mayotte uses the euro while serving serious Indian Ocean vibes.
On Apple/iOS, this emoji shows as the French tricolor—vertical blue, white, and red—clean, bright, slightly waving, and no flagpole. It’s not the local coat of arms with the twin seahorses and crescent, so don’t go squinting for marine mascots. Depending on the platform, you might even see a generic FR-style rendering or, on older systems, the letters YT instead of a picture.
Online, it pairs perfectly with palm trees, waves, turtles, and whale emojis to signal diving days, coral-reef pics, or “BRB, lagoon time.” There’s also a running in-joke: “YT” is internet slang for “YouTube” or coded talk for “white,” so sometimes people type “yt” and summon this flag by accident—cue confusion and a quick geography lesson. Used playfully, it can say “island mode activated,” or more tenderly, “thinking of home.” If you’re posting ylang-ylang–scented sunsets from Mamoudzou, this is the tiny flag that does the heavy lifting.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1794 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 | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Flag of Mayotte Mayotte |
| 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) | 1f1fe, 1f1f9 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1FE, U+1F1F9 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127486, 127481 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBE, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB9 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 BE, F0 9F 87 B9 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 276, 360 237 207 271 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDFE, 0xD83C 0xDDF9 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddfe, d83cddf9 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56830, 55356 56825 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1FE 0x0001F1F9 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1FE, 01F1F9 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127486, 127481 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1FE\U0001F1F9" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xbe\xf0\x9f\x87\xb9" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDFE\uD83C\uDDF9" |
