The flag: Costa Rica emoji plants a bright little “pura vida” right into your chat, repping the Central American paradise of sloths, surf, volcanoes, and ridiculously good coffee. People drop it when flexing eco-adventures in Monteverde, beach sunsets in Tamarindo, or to cheer on La Sele during World Cup and CONCACAF showdowns. It’s also a favorite for digital nomad humblebrags—aka “currently WFH with toucans”—and for Tico/Tica pride posts that radiate wholesome optimism.
On Apple devices, it shows as a small, gently waving rectangle with five crisp horizontal stripes: blue at the top and bottom, then white, and a bold red center. The iOS rendering is glossy and saturated, usually without the tiny coat of arms that sits on the red stripe in the real-world state flag—too detailed for emoji scale—so you get clean color bands that pop in dark mode. If you’ve ever mixed it up with Thailand’s flag, clock the order: Costa Rica wears blue on the outside, not red.
Online, it pairs beautifully with 🦥, 🌋, ☕, and 🏄 to broadcast “vacation brain” or eco-travel goals. It can be used playfully or sarcastically—like announcing you’re “moving to Costa Rica” after one rough Monday, or when your timeline needs instant sunshine. Drop it with “pura vida” to flirt, to hype a trip, or to summon chill vibes when your group chat is doing the absolute most.
This flag represents the country of Costa Rica.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1120 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 CR Costa Rica |
| 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, 1f1f7 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E8, U+1F1F7 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127464, 127479 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB7 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A8, F0 9F 87 B7 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 250, 360 237 207 267 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE8, 0xD83C 0xDDF7 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde8, d83cddf7 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56808, 55356 56823 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E8 0x0001F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E8, 01F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127464, 127479 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E8\U0001F1F7" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa8\xf0\x9f\x87\xb7" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDF7" |
