The flag: Ethiopia emoji waves in green, yellow, and red with a bold blue disc and a yellow star in the center—instantly recognizable and proudly vibrant. On Apple/iOS, it appears as a glossy, slightly wind-swept rectangle on a silver pole, with the blue circle and golden pentagram neatly centered on the middle yellow stripe. People drop it to rep Ethiopian heritage, shout out Addis Ababa, or flex their love for injera, buna (coffee), and world-class distance running—cue the 👟 energy. It also pops up next to a coffee cup to declare, respectfully, that the origin story of your morning brew starts here.
Online, this flag is a go-to for Habesha pride posts, Pan-African vibes, and travel brags about Lalibela or Timkat celebrations. You’ll see it cheering the Walia Ibex football team, hyping marathon wins, or captioning that perfect plate of tibs like a culinary mic drop. Meme side quest: it occasionally photobombs crypto chats when someone says “ETH,” and the timeline responds with the Ethiopia flag for the culture and the chaos. Culturally, it nods to a nation that famously resisted colonization attempts, a coffee ceremony that feels like a warm hug, and colors that also echo through reggae and Rastafari aesthetics (though the official flag includes the blue starry emblem). In short, it’s pride, heritage, caffeine, speed, and celebration—beautifully color-graded by iOS.
This emoji represents the country of Ethiopia.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 995 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 ET Ethiopia |
| 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) | 1f1ea, 1f1f9 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EA, U+1F1F9 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127466, 127481 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAA, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB9 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AA, F0 9F 87 B9 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 252, 360 237 207 271 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEA, 0xD83C 0xDDF9 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddea, d83cddf9 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56810, 55356 56825 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EA 0x0001F1F9 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EA, 01F1F9 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127466, 127481 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EA\U0001F1F9" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xaa\xf0\x9f\x87\xb9" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEA\uD83C\uDDF9" |
