The Kiribati flag emoji brings big island energy in a tiny rectangle: bold red sky up top, deep-blue sea below with three white wavy stripes, a golden rising sun, and a yellow frigatebird soaring like it owns the ocean. On Apple/iOS it appears as a crisp, slightly wavy rectangle with vivid contrast—the sun’s spiky rays and the bird’s unmistakable silhouette pop even at small sizes. If you spot “bird over waves” at a glance, yep, that’s Kiribati.
Online, people drop this flag for South Pacific daydreams, sunrise aesthetics, beachy posts, and those “brb moving to a tiny island” memes. It also shows up in climate and sea-level-rise conversations—Kiribati is a low-lying nation, so the sun-and-waves symbol hits different—plus diaspora pride, travel flexes, and romantic “island time” vibes. Fun fact angle for the timeline: Kiribati straddles the equator and the International Date Line and famously leaned into “first sunrise” bragging rights around Y2K, which makes that golden sun feel extra on brand. Expect it alongside 🌊🌴☀️ for wanderlust, or used sarcastically when someone’s mentally logging off to the middle of the Pacific.
The country of Kiribati is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 824 of 2393 |
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| 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 KI Kiribati |
| 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) | 1f1f0, 1f1ee |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F0, U+1F1EE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127472, 127470 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB0, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B0, F0 9F 87 AE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 260, 360 237 207 256 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF0, 0xD83C 0xDDEE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf0, d83cddee |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56816, 55356 56814 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F0 0x0001F1EE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F0, 01F1EE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127472, 127470 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F0\U0001F1EE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb0\xf0\x9f\x87\xae" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF0\uD83C\uDDEE" |
