The flag: Eritrea emoji plants the Horn of Africa right in your chat, waving a bold design: a red isosceles triangle with a gold olive wreath and branch, flanked by green up top and blue below. On Apple/iOS it pops as a glossy rectangle with saturated colors—green upper-right, blue lower-right, and that unmistakable red left panel carrying the golden emblem like a badge—no flagpole, just crisp geometry and clean lines. The gold wreath is the instantly recognizable detail people clock first, signaling Eritrean identity, history, and Independence Day pride (May 24) in one sweeping glance.
You’ll see this emoji used by the Eritrean diaspora to rep roots, caption injera-and-zigni food pics, or hype cycling wins (Eritrea’s bike culture is huge). On social, it shows up in bios, travel flexes to Asmara and Massawa, coffee ceremony posts with the jebena, and those “drop your flag” threads where everyone spams their heritage. It can be playful—pair it with a bike, coffee, or Red Sea wave emoji—or dramatic when someone is doing the “heritage check” in comments. Bonus meme energy: people toss it in when a Horn of Africa playlist slaps, or when they’re claiming “Habesha vibes” with extra pride.
Culturally, the colors have vibes: green for agriculture, blue for the sea, red for sacrifice—so it often comes with respectful or celebratory tone. But it also swings casual and ironic, like a subtle “Eri fam assembled” ping in group chats or a cheeky flag flex next to a spicy tsebhi close-up. Whether you’re shouting out Asmara’s Art Deco streets, Red Sea coast dreams, or just saying “we outside,” this flag emoji communicates identity fast and loud.
The country of Eritrea is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1556 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters ER Eritrea |
| 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, 1f1f7 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EA, U+1F1F7 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127466, 127479 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAA, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB7 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AA, F0 9F 87 B7 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 252, 360 237 207 267 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEA, 0xD83C 0xDDF7 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddea, d83cddf7 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56810, 55356 56823 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EA 0x0001F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EA, 01F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127466, 127479 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EA\U0001F1F7" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xaa\xf0\x9f\x87\xb7" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEA\uD83C\uDDF7" |
