The flag: India emoji shows the Tiranga—saffron on top, white in the middle with the navy-blue Ashoka Chakra (24 spokes), and India green at the bottom. On Apple devices it’s a crisp, slightly waving rectangle on a sleek silver pole; the saffron pops warm, the green runs deep, and the Chakra sits perfectly centered like a finely inked wheel. You’ll spot the subtle fabric ripples and clean edges, which make the spokes clearly visible even at small sizes. It’s instantly recognizable, basically the digital equivalent of a proud stadium wave.
Online, this emoji rides shotgun with cricket hype (#TeamIndia, #BleedBlue), Independence Day (15 Aug), Republic Day (26 Jan), and diaspora pride posts from NRIs flexing “desi and global.” It’s dropped as a mic-drop after clutch wins, paired with 🧡🤍💚 hearts in celebratory captions, or thrown in with chai selfies, Bollywood bops, and “India OP” gaming memes. You’ll also see it used playfully or sarcastically—like when someone claims world’s-best-spice-level bragging rights or posts a victory lap about nailing a visa, a startup demo, or a perfectly round roti. Bonus trend: this emoji often appears alongside “Bharat” mentions, travel updates, food reels, and wedding week spam that could power a small city.
This emoji represents the country of India.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1073 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 IN India |
| 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, 1f1f3 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EE, U+1F1F3 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127470, 127475 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAE, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB3 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AE, F0 9F 87 B3 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 256, 360 237 207 263 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEE, 0xD83C 0xDDF3 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddee, d83cddf3 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56814, 55356 56819 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EE 0x0001F1F3 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EE, 01F1F3 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127470, 127475 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EE\U0001F1F3" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xae\xf0\x9f\x87\xb3" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEE\uD83C\uDDF3" |
