A tiny flag with big “out-there” energy, the Tristan da Cunha flag emoji reps the world’s most remote inhabited archipelago in the South Atlantic. Visually it’s a classic British Blue Ensign: deep navy field with the Union Jack in the top-left and a detailed coat of arms on the fly side. On Apple/iOS, the flag appears as a gently waving rectangle; the Union Jack pops in bright red-white-blue, and the badge is surprisingly crisp—look closely and you’ll spot maritime symbols and a prominent Tristan rock lobster, plus seabird vibes and a little longboat perched above like a nautical mic drop.
Online, people use this emoji as shorthand for “I’m going off-grid,” “BRB moving to the middle of nowhere,” or when the group chat goes so silent it might as well be in the South Atlantic. It’s a geography-nerd flex, a travel-bucket-list wink, and a meme for remote-work fantasies (“WFH? More like WFTdC”). The vibe is introvert-core, do-not-disturb energy, and sometimes romantic-drama-level “long-distance,” delivered with a tiny blue flag. IRL associations: volcanic islands, a famously small community, British Overseas Territory status, rough seas, and a celebrated rock lobster fishery—basically, oceanic main-character energy in emoji form.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1874 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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| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
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| 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) | 1f1f9, 1f1e6 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F9, U+1F1E6 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127481, 127462 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB9, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA6 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B9, F0 9F 87 A6 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 271, 360 237 207 246 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF9, 0xD83C 0xDDE6 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf9, d83cdde6 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56825, 55356 56806 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F9 0x0001F1E6 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F9, 01F1E6 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127481, 127462 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F9\U0001F1E6" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb9\xf0\x9f\x87\xa6" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF9\uD83C\uDDE6" |
