The flag: Iran emoji plants a mini green–white–red banner with the bold red national emblem in the middle, standing in for Iran, Persian culture, and people worldwide. Online, it pops up for Team Melli matches, Nowruz greetings, travel posts from Tehran to Shiraz, or any proud “Persian and thriving” moment. It also tags conversations about kabab, tahdig, saffron ice cream, pistachios, and poetry quotes that sound suspiciously like your therapist is named Hafez.
Meme-wise, folks pair it with rug and cat emojis for the classic “Persian carpet, Persian cat, Persian tea” starter pack, or drop it alongside 💬 to signal Farsi-only threads. It can show up ironically during news cycles, or as a quick “shout-out to the diaspora” in comment wars, and yes, people sometimes misread it as Italy’s flag until the central red emblem screams “plot twist.” Pro tip: Italy is vertical stripes, Hungary flips the horizontal order, Mexico has an eagle; this one is Iran—horizontal green on top, white middle, red bottom with that tulip-sword emblem.
On Apple/iOS, the emoji is a gently waving rectangle with saturated green, clean white, and deep red bands, plus the crisp, cherry-red emblem centered on the white stripe. The tiny Kufic “Allahu Akbar” border text from the real flag isn’t shown—too small for emoji land—so the design keeps things readable. The fabric shading gives it a petite 3D ripple, no flagpole, and the emblem looks like a stylized tulip made of four crescents and a sword—exactly what you’ll squint to spot at small sizes.
The country of Iran is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1430 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters IR Iran |
| 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) | 1f1ee, 1f1f7 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EE, U+1F1F7 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127470, 127479 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAE, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB7 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AE, F0 9F 87 B7 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 256, 360 237 207 267 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEE, 0xD83C 0xDDF7 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddee, d83cddf7 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56814, 55356 56823 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EE 0x0001F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EE, 01F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127470, 127479 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EE\U0001F1F7" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xae\xf0\x9f\x87\xb7" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEE\uD83C\uDDF7" |
