The flag: Lesotho emoji flies a calm, clean tricolor—royal blue up top, white in the middle, and green on the bottom—with a bold black Basotho hat (the mokorotlo) centered like a minimalist logo. On Apple/iOS it appears as a crisp, slightly waving rectangle with high-contrast colors and a neatly detailed conical hat motif right on the white band—no flagpole, just the fabric doing a subtle ripple. That black mokorotlo is the instant giveaway: once you’ve seen it, you’ll spot Lesotho in a lineup of flags faster than a geography bee champion. It’s the “Kingdom in the Sky” vibe in emoji form—mountains, fresh air, and a hat with main-character energy.
People use this emoji for Basotho pride, travel threads from Maseru or the highlands, and sports shoutouts (cue Likuena match chatter). It pops up in r/vexillology humblebrags, geography-quiz flexes, and “I just drove Sani Pass, wish me luck” posts—often paired with mountain and horse emojis for pony-trekking clout. There’s also a wholesome meme lane: dropping the flag with Basotho blanket selfies or altitude-flex captions, sometimes ironically when a hike felt like a stairmaster from the ninth circle. The modern design (introduced in the 2000s to emphasize peace) and that unmistakable mokorotlo make it both culturally grounded and extremely recognizable online.
The country of Lesotho is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1791 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 LS Lesotho |
| 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) | 1f1f1, 1f1f8 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F1, U+1F1F8 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127473, 127480 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB1, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B1, F0 9F 87 B8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 261, 360 237 207 270 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF1, 0xD83C 0xDDF8 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf1, d83cddf8 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56817, 55356 56824 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F1 0x0001F1F8 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F1, 01F1F8 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127473, 127480 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F1\U0001F1F8" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb1\xf0\x9f\x87\xb8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF1\uD83C\uDDF8" |
