flag: Malawi pops up as the black-red-green horizontal tricolor with that unmistakable rising red sun on the top black band. On Apple/iOS it shows as a clean, pole-less rectangle, high-contrast stripes, and a crisp half-sun with radiating rays peeking over the horizonβinstant eye-catcher even at tiny sizes. The look screams pan-African colors plus sunrise optimism, and you can spot it in a split second in a sea of flags.
People drop it to rep Malawi, celebrate the Warm Heart of Africa, hype the Flames during AFCON, or caption Lake Malawi pics, nsima feasts, and Mulanje hikes. It also doubles as a mood: a "new day" emoji for comeback announcements, early-bird rise-and-grind posts, or glow-up reveals; flip it sarcastic for "me at 5 a.m., send help." Diaspora users pair it with hearts and sun emojis for wholesome pride, while travelers use it as a humble-brag stamp on itinerary dumps. You'll see it trending around Independence Day in July, music festivals, NGO updates, and feel-good community wins. Fun tidbit: online debates sometimes reference the brief "full sun vs rising sun" redesign era, but this emoji sticks with the classic sunrise, so nobody confuses it with anything else.
The country of Malawi is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1630 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 MW Malawi |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | π²πΌ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | π²πΌ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇲 🇼 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇲 🇼 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1f2, 1f1fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F2, U+1F1FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127474, 127484 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB2, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B2, F0 9F 87 BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 262, 360 237 207 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF2, 0xD83C 0xDDFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf2, d83cddfc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56818, 55356 56828 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F2 0x0001F1FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F2, 01F1FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127474, 127484 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F2\U0001F1FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb2\xf0\x9f\x87\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF2\uD83C\uDDFC" |
