The flag: Hong Kong SAR China emoji plants a crisp white Bauhinia blakeana flower on a rich red field—five petals, each stamped with a tiny red star and swirl, like fireworks frozen mid-bloom. On Apple devices it appears as a glossy, right-tilted rectangular flag on a silver pole, mid‑wave, with that iconic white flower centered and super clean—a design you can spot faster than you can say "yum cha." It represents Hong Kong, the Special Administrative Region of China since the 1997 handover, and it pops up in posts about travel, finance (hello, HKEX hours), Cantopop, movie nostalgia, and late-night noodle runs that somehow turn into sunrise tram rides.
Online, people drop this flag with dim sum pics, skyline flexes from Victoria Harbour, or to signal Cantonese pride and diaspora vibes. It can be playful (egg tart thirst posts), aspirational (neon-cyberpunk cityscape mood), or practical ("shipping from HK" or "see you next MTR stop"). It shows up alongside money charts, Bruce Lee/Jackie Chan throwbacks, and cheeky foodie captions that read like cha chaan teng menus. Don’t confuse it with the generic 🚩 red-flag meme—this one’s the bauhinia bloom, not a dating warning sign. Bonus: it’s a handy badge for esports fans, travel bloggers, and anyone announcing “HK next!” with jet-lagged enthusiasm and a suitcase full of pineapple buns.
This flag represents the country of Hong Kong SAR China.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1368 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 HK Hong Kong SAR China |
| 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) | 1f1ed, 1f1f0 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1ED, U+1F1F0 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127469, 127472 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAD, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB0 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AD, F0 9F 87 B0 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 255, 360 237 207 260 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDED, 0xD83C 0xDDF0 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdded, d83cddf0 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56813, 55356 56816 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1ED 0x0001F1F0 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1ED, 01F1F0 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127469, 127472 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1ED\U0001F1F0" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xad\xf0\x9f\x87\xb0" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDED\uD83C\uDDF0" |
