The flag: Belgium emoji flies a clean tricolor of vertical stripes—black at the hoist, then yellow, then red—often shown as a softly waving rectangle on iOS with rich, saturated hues and no crest or pole. On Apple devices it has a subtle ripple and rounded corners, so you instantly spot that glossy black–gold–red stack marching left to right. Pro tip for the timeline: it’s not Germany rotated; Germany’s stripes go horizontal, so don’t @ the Belgians with your portrait-mode takes.
People drop this flag when cheering the Red Devils in football, flexing cycling pride during the Spring Classics, or live-tweeting Eurovision with a cone of frites. It pairs beautifully with 🍟🧇🍫🍺 to say “Belgium energy,” whether you’re posting a Brussels trip, bragging about Trappist beer, or defending the honor of real Belgian fries. Expect multilingual flair—bonjour, goeiedag, guten Tag—because the flag often captions memes about Belgium’s French/Dutch/German mix, EU headquarters clout, and cultural icons from Tintin to Manneken Pis to Tomorrowland. It also shows up sarcastically when someone claims “French” fries, or when you humblebrag a chocolate haul like a diplomat of dessert.
This emoji represents the country of Belgium.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 710 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 BE Belgium |
| 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) | 1f1e7, 1f1ea |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E7, U+1F1EA |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127463, 127466 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAA |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A7, F0 9F 87 AA |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 247, 360 237 207 252 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE7, 0xD83C 0xDDEA |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde7, d83cddea |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56807, 55356 56810 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E7 0x0001F1EA |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E7, 01F1EA |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127463, 127466 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E7\U0001F1EA" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa7\xf0\x9f\x87\xaa" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE7\uD83C\uDDEA" |
