The flag: Ecuador emoji flashes those bold yellow, blue, and red stripes—with a tiny coat of arms in the center on many platforms—so you instantly know it’s not Colombia or Venezuela (unless your app shrinks it into mystery pixels). People spam it to rep La Tri on match day, flex a Galápagos getaway, or just shout “¡Vamos Ecuador!” louder than caps lock ever could. It also pops up next to steaming bowls of encebollado or ceviche, or a cozy canelazo on a chilly Andean night, because taste buds deserve patriotism too. Meme-wise, it’s the go-to reaction for World Cup qualifiers: a friendly reminder that playing in Quito (hello, 2,850 m) turns rivals into cardio influencers.
On Apple iOS, expect a glossy, gently waving rectangle: a super-thick yellow top band, deep blue middle, and bright red bottom, with a teeny central crest that reads as a dark condor perched over an oval shield—micro-details you can’t really read, but you can tell “yep, that blob means Ecuador.” That tiny emblem is the visual cheat code that separates it from Colombia’s emoji, while Venezuela’s has stars—spot the difference, win the group chat. You’ll see it in bios for diaspora pride, victory threads, travel reels from the Mitad del Mundo line, and foodie posts that escalate into “whose cacao is king?” debates.
There’s history baked in: the tricolor traces back to the Gran Colombia era, which is why the palette looks like the neighbors’—cue mini history lesson in the comments. Used playfully or sarcastically, it can be a national flex, a flirty invite with empanadas de viento, or that dramatic “Ecuador mode: activated” when the playlist switches to hometown bangers.
This emoji represents the country of Ecuador.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1167 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 EC Ecuador |
| 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, 1f1e8 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EA, U+1F1E8 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127466, 127464 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAA, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AA, F0 9F 87 A8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 252, 360 237 207 250 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEA, 0xD83C 0xDDE8 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddea, d83cdde8 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56810, 55356 56808 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EA 0x0001F1E8 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EA, 01F1E8 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127466, 127464 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EA\U0001F1E8" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xaa\xf0\x9f\x87\xa8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEA\uD83C\uDDE8" |
