This is the flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, aka Congo‑Kinshasa, the one across the river from Brazzaville. On Apple devices it waves from a silver pole, glossy folds and all, with a bright sky‑blue field, a bold red slash trimmed in yellow running diagonally, and a single yellow star parked in the top-left. That red lightning-bolt stripe over aqua blue is the instant tell.
People drop this emoji to rep DRC pride, celebrate Leopards wins during AFCON, or soundtrack a feed with Congolese rumba and soukous. It tags homecoming posts to Kinshasa, shout-outs from the diaspora, and solidarity threads when the country is in the news. Because the two Congos confuse the timeline weekly, you’ll see it in "Kinshasa, not Brazzaville" corrections and "wrong Congo" memes. Pair it with fire or dancing emojis when Fally Ipupa hits your playlist, or with map pins when planning a Virunga dream trip.
In DMs, it can be a low-key heritage flex; in debates, it’s the polite-but-pointed flag drop that ends the mix-up. Some even use it ironically during tech-minerals chatter, posting the flag from the very smartphones that start those conversations. Either way, the 🇨🇩 emoji carries big energy—vibrant, rhythmic, and unmistakably Kin.
This flag represents the country of Congo - Kinshasa.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 994 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 CD Congo - Kinshasa |
| 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, 1f1e9 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1E8, U+1F1E9 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127464, 127465 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA9 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 A8, F0 9F 87 A9 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 250, 360 237 207 251 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDE8, 0xD83C 0xDDE9 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdde8, d83cdde9 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56808, 55356 56809 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1E8 0x0001F1E9 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1E8, 01F1E9 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127464, 127465 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1E8\U0001F1E9" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xa8\xf0\x9f\x87\xa9" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDE9" |
