The flag: Cape Verde emoji flies a deep ocean-blue field with a slim white-red-white triple stripe cruising across the middle and a ring of ten golden stars parked slightly left—like the Milky Way paused for a beach day. On Apple devices, it’s a glossy, gently waving rectangle, rich navy tones up top and bottom, crisp stripes, and a clean circle of bright yellow stars that pop against the blue. Even at tiny sizes, those ten stars in orbit and the single red lane are the dead giveaways. It’s the digital passport stamp for Cabo Verde vibes.
People drop this flag to flex island vacations (Sal and Boa Vista, we see you), rep diaspora pride, or soundtrack posts with Cesária Évora and that sweet morna “sodade.” It shows up on match days for the Blue Sharks football team, in carnival recaps from Mindelo, and on food pics of cachupa that look like a hug in a bowl. Expect cheeky captions like “Moving to CV, brb” or the ever-necessary clarification: “CV = Cabo Verde, not your résumé.” Pair it with 🌊🌞🌀 when tracking Atlantic weather, or with 🎶🍹 for a grogue-and-playlist weekend.
Culturally, the emoji nods to an Atlantic archipelago blending African and Portuguese influences, volcanic drama on Fogo, and year-round trade-wind cool. It’s also a July 5 shout for Independence Day posts and a go-to in wanderlust grids chasing blue-on-blue aesthetics. Whether sincere pride, travel thirst trap, or ironic “I live here now” energy, this flag reads sun, sea, and seriously good playlists.
This flag represents the country of Cape Verde.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1166 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 CV Cape Verde |
| 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) | 1f1e8, 1f1fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E8, U+1F1FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127464, 127483 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A8, F0 9F 87 BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 250, 360 237 207 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE8, 0xD83C 0xDDFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde8, d83cddfb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56808, 55356 56827 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E8 0x0001F1FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E8, 01F1FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127464, 127483 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E8\U0001F1FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa8\xf0\x9f\x87\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDFB" |
