The flag: United Arab Emirates emoji brings the PanโArab palette to your keyboard: a bold red vertical bar at the hoist with green, white, and black stripes running across. On Apple/iOS, it appears as a clean, rectangular banner with saturated colors, subtle shading that hints at soft fabric ripples, and no flagpoleโinstantly recognizable even at tiny sizes. Those crisp blocks of color pop in chats, making it a goโto for location tags, national pride, and travel bragging rights. Think: โJust landed in Dubai ๐ฆ๐ชโ with a skyline pic and suspiciously shiny supercars in the background.
People drop this emoji for UAE National Day (Dec 2), Ramadan and Eid greetings, Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix hype, football matches, and Expo/DIFC/tech-conference buzz. It rides alongside ๐, ๐๏ธ, ๐ช, ๐๏ธ, and โจ for that desert-meets-futurism aesthetic. Expats and fans use it in bios, gamer tags, and victory posts, while WhatsApp family groups light it up during fireworks, dhow cruises, and graduation announcements.
Internet culture also treats ๐ฆ๐ช as the โDubai flexโ badgeโcue memes about gold-plated everything, brunch skyscrapers, and โhabibi, come to Dubaiโ energy. It can be used playfully or ironically when someone teases a friend about moving for that tax-friendly, influencer-core lifestyle. Add a sparkle and a jet emoji and it screams soft launch of a relocation.
Culturally, the colors signal Arab unity and regional heritage, so the emoji can carry warmth, respect, and celebratory vibes. Whether youโre cheering an Emirati friend, sharing falconry and desert-safari pics, or just manifesting Burj Khalifa views, ๐ฆ๐ช says it with style.
This emoji represents the country of United Arab Emirates.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1128 of 2393 |
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| 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: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters AE United Arab Emirates |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐ฆ๐ช |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐ฆ๐ช |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇦 🇪 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇦 🇪 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1e6, 1f1ea |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E6, U+1F1EA |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127462, 127466 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA6, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAA |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A6, F0 9F 87 AA |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 246, 360 237 207 252 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE6, 0xD83C 0xDDEA |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde6, d83cddea |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56806, 55356 56810 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E6 0x0001F1EA |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E6, 01F1EA |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127462, 127466 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E6\U0001F1EA" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa6\xf0\x9f\x87\xaa" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE6\uD83C\uDDEA" |
