On Apple/iOS, it’s a tidy, gently rippling rectangle on a slender gray pole, shaded like real fabric. The blue leans cobalt, the nine horizontal stripes begin and end with blue, and the canton’s sharp white cross stays legible even at micro sizes. It photographs perfectly alongside sea-wave, temple, olive, and plate-smashing energy for instant Mediterranean mood. If your grid runs on white walls, blue domes, and an accidental sun flare, this emoji completes the aesthetic.
Online, it’s a wink for classics majors, islands-only itineraries, and memes about Zeus as the original drama king. People drop it while typing Greek letters in chats, or to poke fun at American “Greek life” confusion—no, your frat does not manage the Parthenon. Whether you’re riding Euro 2004 nostalgia or captioning a feta-forward lunch, the flag promises azure skies, ancient stories, and good vibes ahead.
The Greece flag emoji plants you on a sunlit terrace drenched in blue-and-white—nine bands of Aegean blue and bright white, plus the white cross in the upper-left canton. It shouts Opa! in captions for Santorini sunsets and gyros runs, or when someone crams democracy, feta, and philosophy into one whirlwind weekend. You’ll see it flying during football tournaments, Eurovision stanning, Greek Independence Day (March 25), and big Greek Orthodox Easter vibes, as well as in 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 devolves into alpha–beta chaos.
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" |
