Deep ocean-blue with the Union Jack in the corner and a ring of 15 white stars—yep, that’s the Cook Islands flag bringing instant lagoon-core vibes. It’s the emoji you drop when you’re daydreaming of hammocks, coconuts, and water so clear your sunscreen blushes. People use it to flex a South Pacific getaway, humblebrag a honeymoon, announce a diving trip, or set their OOO to "mentally I’m in Rarotonga." It also pops up from diaspora accounts and sports fans during rugby league or sevens weekends.
Internet humor loves this one: pair it with a palm tree and airplane for a soft-life sign-off, or toss it in a caption that screams "find me where the Wi‑Fi is weak." Real-world associations include Aitutaki’s unreal lagoon, black pearls from Manihiki, and proud Polynesian vaka traditions. It’s sometimes mistaken for Australia/New Zealand (Blue Ensign cousins) or even the EU, but the giveaway is that perfect circle of fifteen stars—no Southern Cross, and definitely not twelve.
On Apple/iOS, the emoji shows as a clean rectangular flag (no pole), rich navy-blue with a subtle wave-like shading. The Union Jack sits crisp in the top-left, while a tight ring of 15 white five-pointed stars glows on the fly side, like a constellation made for postcards. It stands out in timelines and pairs flawlessly with the snorkel, wave, shell, and tropical drink emojis—small nation, big-ocean energy.
The country of Cook Islands is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1255 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 CK Cook Islands |
| 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, 1f1f0 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E8, U+1F1F0 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127464, 127472 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB0 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A8, F0 9F 87 B0 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 250, 360 237 207 260 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE8, 0xD83C 0xDDF0 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde8, d83cddf0 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56808, 55356 56816 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E8 0x0001F1F0 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E8, 01F1F0 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127464, 127472 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E8\U0001F1F0" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa8\xf0\x9f\x87\xb0" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDF0" |
