The flag: Burkina Faso is a bold red-over-green banner with a bright yellow five-pointed star smack in the middle—clean, striking, impossible to miss. On Apple/iOS it shows as a slightly wavy rectangle with glossy shading on the folds, vivid cherry red up top, deep grassy green below, and that crisp gold star centered like a power-up.
You’ll see it dropped in timelines during AFCON when people cheer on Les Étalons (the Stallions), in posts about Ouagadougou and FESPACO film buzz, or in diaspora threads flexing West Africa pride. It can also be a subtle nod to pan‑African colors or a quick “Faso fam checking in” tag in group chats. Meme-wise, folks sometimes use it tongue‑in‑cheek in “red flag” jokes—because yes, there’s literally a big red stripe—only to double back with the star like “but it’s a keeper.” Travel bloggers pair it with plane emojis to chart Sahel adventures; foodies might drop it next to millet tô or shea market pics; style lovers use it when shouting out Faso Dan Fani textiles. It reads upbeat and grounded: celebratory for sports and culture, respectful for history, and perfect for marking moments tied to Burkina’s resilient spirit.
This emoji represents the country of Burkina Faso.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1253 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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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters BF Burkina Faso |
| 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, 1f1eb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E7, U+1F1EB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127463, 127467 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A7, F0 9F 87 AB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 247, 360 237 207 253 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE7, 0xD83C 0xDDEB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde7, d83cddeb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56807, 55356 56811 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E7 0x0001F1EB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E7, 01F1EB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127463, 127467 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E7\U0001F1EB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa7\xf0\x9f\x87\xab" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE7\uD83C\uDDEB" |
