The flag: Sark emoji represents the tiny Channel Island of Sark, famous for its old-school seigneurie vibes, no-cars rule (tractors are the local Uber), and ridiculously starry skies. The design is instantly recognizable: a white field with a bold red St George’s Cross and, in the top-left canton, two gold lions (aka leopards) passant on red—like a minimalist England flag that unlocked a Norman DLC. On Apple/iOS where it actually renders (often via app-specific sets or custom fonts), you’ll see a clean, slightly waving rectangle with crisp vector edges, bright candy-red cross, and that red canton flaunting the two golden cats, no flagpole included and a gentle fabric gloss. Heads-up: this is not a widely standardized Unicode flag, so many keyboards won’t show it; you might get a fallback box, a black flag, or folks defaulting to the Guernsey flag instead.
Online, people drop this emoji as a niche flex—travel brag posts, Channel Islands pride, or when a group chat jokingly declares independence from the rest of the internet. It can read “small but mighty,” “secret island energy,” or “we’re going off-grid to watch meteors and ride bikes.” In meme mode, it pairs perfectly with micronation jokes, cottagecore-by-the-sea aesthetics, and “touch grass, then touch tractor” humor. History nerds nod to its Norman heraldry; romantics go for the dark-sky stargazing feels; and geography geeks just love that it’s the flag with two lions, not three. If it doesn’t render, people often write “Sark” with island emojis, or post a pic of the flag IRL for the ultimate workaround.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1635 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 |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - 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, 1f1f6 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E8, U+1F1F6 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127464, 127478 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB6 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A8, F0 9F 87 B6 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 250, 360 237 207 266 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE8, 0xD83C 0xDDF6 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde8, d83cddf6 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56808, 55356 56822 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E8 0x0001F1F6 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E8, 01F1F6 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127464, 127478 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E8\U0001F1F6" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa8\xf0\x9f\x87\xb6" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDF6" |
