The flag: Guinea-Bissau emoji plants you right on the West African coast with bold Pan‑African vibes: a vertical red strip at the hoist carrying a solid black five‑pointed star, and two horizontal bands—gold on top, green on the bottom—on the fly. It’s the go-to drop for Bissau-Guinean pride, football hype for the Djurtus at AFCON, and diaspora shout-outs in bios and WhatsApp family chats. Online, people also use it as a geography flex (“not Guinea, not Equatorial Guinea—Guinea‑Bissau, thank you!”) or pair it with the Portugal flag to nod at Lusophone roots.
On Apple/iOS, the emoji shows as a clean, rectangular flag with saturated colors: that eye-catching red bar at the left with the bold black star, and the unmistakable yellow-over-green stripes to the right—no pole, slight glossy shading, neat edges. If you ever mistake it for Ghana, look for the layout: Guinea‑Bissau’s star sits in the red hoist panel, not centered across horizontal stripes. It pops in travel posts to the Bijagós archipelago, music shares (gumbe rhythms, anyone?), and Independence Day notes on 24 September. Sarcastically, the star sometimes becomes a “you earned a gold—well, black—star” moment, and in meme talk it’s a tidy way to say “Pan‑African energy, but specifically Bissau‑Guinean.”
This flag represents the country of Guinea-Bissau.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1826 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 GW Guinea-Bissau |
| 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, 1f1fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EC, U+1F1FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127468, 127484 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAC, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AC, F0 9F 87 BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 254, 360 237 207 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEC, 0xD83C 0xDDFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddec, d83cddfc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56812, 55356 56828 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EC 0x0001F1FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EC, 01F1FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127468, 127484 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EC\U0001F1FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xac\xf0\x9f\x87\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEC\uD83C\uDDFC" |
