A sleek little rectangle with big personality: the Kuwait flag emoji shows a left-side black trapezoid and three bold horizontal bands—green on top, white in the middle, red on the bottom. On Apple/iOS it appears as a clean, pole-free banner with sharp color blocks; the black wedge angles inward from the hoist and the stripes stay crisp and bright even at tiny chat-sized scale. That distinctive black wedge is the instant giveaway when you’re scrolling at lightning speed.
People drop this emoji to rep Kuwaiti roots, shout out Kuwait City in their bio, or geotag travel posts without actually turning on location services. It pops up during football matches and Gulf tournaments, in “made/ships from Kuwait” shop captions, and alongside coffee cups and skyline pics for full diwaniya-meets-modernity vibes. Used with a wink, it can signal “reporting live from the Gulf,” or add patriotic confetti to National Day and Liberation Day threads.
Culturally, it calls to mind the Kuwait Towers glow-up shots, seaside fireworks on Feb 25–26, and a blend of desert-and-sea aesthetics that feels instantly Kuwaiti. Meme-wise, the flag works as a tidy mic-drop—just the wedge-and-stripes to say “KWT checking in,” no further explanation needed.
The country of Kuwait is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1044 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 | |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters KW Kuwait |
| 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, 1f1fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F0, U+1F1FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127472, 127484 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB0, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B0, F0 9F 87 BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 260, 360 237 207 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF0, 0xD83C 0xDDFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf0, d83cddfc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56816, 55356 56828 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F0 0x0001F1FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F0, 01F1FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127472, 127484 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F0\U0001F1FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb0\xf0\x9f\x87\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF0\uD83C\uDDFC" |
