The flag: Luxembourg shows a horizontal tricolor—red on top, white in the middle, and a distinctly light, sky-blue stripe on the bottom. It reps the Grand Duchy in chats about travel, EU politics, or when someone is flexing that they found the world’s calmest city break. Expect it during Eurovision hype, football qualifiers, or when a friend brags about a weekend castle tour and perfect pastries.
Online, it doubles as a “lux life” wink—people drop it next to bougie coffees or minimalist office views in Kirchberg. It’s also the star of a classic meme mix-up: “Is that the Netherlands?” If the blue is dark, it’s NL; if it’s a bright sky blue, it’s LU—color-nerd victory unlocked. You’ll spot it in Benelux threads, EU policy debates, and Schengen-travel glow-ups (the agreement was signed in Luxembourg’s village of Schengen, after all). Tiny-but-mighty energy, multilingual swagger, and a finance-city aura are baked into its vibe.
On Apple/iOS, the emoji appears as a clean, gently waving rectangle with vivid red up top, crisp white in the center, and a pale, bright cerulean at the bottom—no coat of arms, no pole, just sleek bands and a soft 3D shine. The lightness of the blue is the instantly recognizable tell, especially when scrolling fast. Think “cool sky at the bottom, hot stripe on top” and you’ll never mix it up again.
This flag represents the country of Luxembourg.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1121 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 LU Luxembourg |
| 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, 1f1fa |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F1, U+1F1FA |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127473, 127482 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB1, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBA |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B1, F0 9F 87 BA |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 261, 360 237 207 272 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF1, 0xD83C 0xDDFA |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf1, d83cddfa |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56817, 55356 56826 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F1 0x0001F1FA |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F1, 01F1FA |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127473, 127482 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F1\U0001F1FA" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb1\xf0\x9f\x87\xba" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF1\uD83C\uDDFA" |
