A clean, graphic trio: vertical green on the left, yellow on the top-right, red on the bottom-right—classic Pan‑African palette with a unique L‑shape layout. On Apple/iOS it shows as a crisp, slightly rounded rectangle with gentle shading, no pole, and those three color fields looking like perfectly cut construction paper.
People drop it to rep Beninese heritage, shout out Cotonou or Porto‑Novo, or hype AFCON matches for the national team (now nicknamed the Cheetahs). It often rides next to travel pics, food adventures, or playlists featuring Angélique Kidjo and other West African sounds. Online, the flag doubles as a vibe‑check for Vodun (Voodoo) roots and Ouidah Festival shoutouts, or as a low‑key “I’m from the corridor between Togo and Nigeria” geography flex.
Meme alert: it sometimes gets confused with other red‑yellow‑green combos; the tell is that solid vertical green slab on the hoist. You’ll also see it in bios, ancestry reveal threads, and football banter—often paired with a motorcycle emoji to nod at the city’s famous zémidjan moto taxis. In sarcastic mode, people drop 🇧🇯 to say “tiny flag, big energy,” or to correct someone mixing up Benin the country with Benin City in Nigeria. Clean, bold, and unmistakable once you clock the layout, this flag emoji is small but instantly punchy in a timeline full of color.
The country of Benin is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1163 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 BJ Benin |
| 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, 1f1ef |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E7, U+1F1EF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127463, 127471 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A7, F0 9F 87 AF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 247, 360 237 207 257 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE7, 0xD83C 0xDDEF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde7, d83cddef |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56807, 55356 56815 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E7 0x0001F1EF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E7, 01F1EF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127463, 127471 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E7\U0001F1EF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa7\xf0\x9f\x87\xaf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE7\uD83C\uDDEF" |
