The flag: Libya emoji reps the red–black–green tricolor with a white crescent and five-pointed star, shouting out Libyan identity, news, and pride from Tripoli to Benghazi. You’ll see it in football hype, travel snaps on the Mediterranean coast, or during Ramadan/Eid posts where the crescent-star vibes feel extra on-theme. It’s also a quick way to say “following events in Libya” or to cheer on friends and fam in the diaspora. Meme twist: people still joke about the old all-green flag era (1977–2011), dropping this to say, “nope, not the green square anymore.” Toss it in when someone posts ruins from Leptis Magna or a Sahara sunset and watch the comments go “Libya core.”
On Apple/iOS, it appears as a gently waving rectangle with a vivid red top stripe, an extra-wide black middle band carrying a crisp white crescent (opening right) and a neat five-pointed star, and a lush green bottom stripe—no pole, subtle shading, slightly glossy folds. The centered crescent and star are the instant giveaway even at tiny sizes, like a minimalist moon-and-star cameo. In texts, it can read supportive, celebratory, or a little dramatic—perfect for “breaking news” threads or patriotic spam when the national team scores. Sarcastically, it’s dropped when someone posts a suspiciously plain green image: throwback unlocked. Online, this flag does double duty as both location tag and cultural signifier—Maghreb vibes, North African pride, and a dash of “send me couscous pics, thanks.”
This flag represents the country of Libya.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1495 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 | |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters LY Libya |
| 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, 1f1fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F1, U+1F1FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127473, 127486 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB1, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B1, F0 9F 87 BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 261, 360 237 207 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF1, 0xD83C 0xDDFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf1, d83cddfe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56817, 55356 56830 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F1 0x0001F1FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F1, 01F1FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127473, 127486 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F1\U0001F1FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb1\xf0\x9f\x87\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF1\uD83C\uDDFE" |
