The flag: Australia emoji plants you firmly in “Straya” mode: a deep navy field with the Union Jack in the top-left corner, the big seven-point Commonwealth Star below it, and the Southern Cross constellation shining on the right. On Apple devices it’s a crisp rectangular flag with subtle fabric ripples, no pole, bold white stars, and that unmistakable red-white-blue mini–UK flag in the canton—clean, saturated, instantly recognizable. People drop it to cheer on the Matildas, the Socceroos, cricket’s Ashes drama, or to flex that they’re posting from the future (GMT+10/11, baby). It also pops up alongside 🦘🐨🏄♂️🍻 for travel brags, beach days, or “moving Down Under” life updates.
Online, it carries big sunny energy: “no worries,” “Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!” and a dash of chaotic wildlife memes (drop bears, anyone?). It’s used ironically when news goes full outback-surreal—spiders, floods, or a kangaroo photobombing a wedding—paired with a weary lol. You’ll see it in bios for Aussie pride, next to slang like “arvo,” “heaps,” and “mate,” or in foodie posts about Vegemite, meat pies, and a Tim Tam slam. When someone says “coming to Sydney/Melbourne/Brissy,” this flag is the RSVP, often flirty or friendly with a casual g’day vibe. It’s also a timezone marker in group chats—drop the flag, add “tomorrow morning for me,” and watch the calendar chaos begin.
This flag represents the country of Australia.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 750 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 | |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters AU Australia |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - 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) | 1f1e6, 1f1fa |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E6, U+1F1FA |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127462, 127482 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA6, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBA |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A6, F0 9F 87 BA |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 246, 360 237 207 272 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE6, 0xD83C 0xDDFA |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde6, d83cddfa |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56806, 55356 56826 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E6 0x0001F1FA |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E6, 01F1FA |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127462, 127482 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E6\U0001F1FA" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa6\xf0\x9f\x87\xba" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE6\uD83C\uDDFA" |
