The flag: Greece emoji plants you right on a sunlit terrace with blue-and-white everything—nine stripes of Aegean blue and bright white, plus the white cross in the top-left canton. It shouts Opa! in captions about Santorini sunsets, gyros runs, or when someone’s rediscovering democracy, feta, and philosophy all in one weekend. You’ll see it flexed during football tournaments, Eurovision stanning, Greek Independence Day (March 25), and big Greek Orthodox Easter vibes, as well as diaspora pride posts and travel-brag Reels. It also pops up ironically with “it’s all Greek to me” when math homework or fraternity rush slang goes full alpha-beta-chaos.
On Apple/iOS, the design is a clean, slightly waving rectangle on a slim gray pole, shaded like real fabric. The blue is a deep cobalt, the nine horizontal stripes start and end with blue, and the square canton’s crisp white cross is easy to spot even at tiny sizes. It photographs well next to sea-wave, temple, olive, and plate-smashing energy, creating instant Mediterranean mood. If your feed has white walls, blue domes, and a sun flare you didn’t ask for, this emoji completes the look.
Online, it’s used playfully for classics majors, islands-only itineraries, and memes about Zeus being the original drama king. People also drop it when typing Greek letters in chats, or to tease American “Greek life” confusion—no, your frat does not control the Parthenon. Whether you’re cheering Euro 2004 nostalgia or just captioning a feta-forward lunch, this flag says: azure skies, ancient stories, and good vibes ahead.
This emoji represents the country of Greece.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1427 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 | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters GR Greece |
| 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) | 1f1ec, 1f1f7 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EC, U+1F1F7 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127468, 127479 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAC, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB7 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AC, F0 9F 87 B7 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 254, 360 237 207 267 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEC, 0xD83C 0xDDF7 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddec, d83cddf7 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56812, 55356 56823 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EC 0x0001F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EC, 01F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127468, 127479 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EC\U0001F1F7" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xac\xf0\x9f\x87\xb7" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEC\uD83C\uDDF7" |
