flag: Moldova plants the blue–yellow–red tricolor with Moldova’s coat of arms front and center, basically “Romania’s palette, but with an eagle and an aurochs” energy. It repps the country, the language-and-wine discourse, and that ‘small but mighty’ Eastern European vibe. People drop it for pride, travel pics from Chișinău, or when Eurovision turns into a pan-flute party.
Online, it’s also the go-to clapback for ‘Moldovia’ typos and for politely-not-so-politely saying “not the Romanian flag, bestie.” Expect it in football goal spam, diaspora nostalgia threads, and foodie posts about sarmale, plăcintă, and absurdly good winery tours in underground caves. There’s ironic use too—posting it after someone mistakes the tricolor without the coat of arms, or when you’re channeling peak Balkan auntie energy.
On Apple/iOS, the emoji is a small, waving rectangle on a gray-silver pole: vertical blue, yellow, red stripes with the detailed coat of arms centered on the yellow. Squint and you’ll still spot the brown-gold eagle holding a cross, plus the shield with the aurochs head and tiny star, rose, and crescent—miniature, but crisp. The perspective has a gentle ripple and saturated colors, making the emblem pop more than on some other platforms.
Fun context: Moldova shares the tricolor roots with Romania, while the aurochs emblem and eagle shout out medieval heraldry and national identity, so the emoji often doubles as a history-and-heritage mic drop.
This flag represents the country of Moldova.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1795 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 | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters MD Moldova |
| 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) | 1f1f2, 1f1e9 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F2, U+1F1E9 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127474, 127465 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB2, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA9 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B2, F0 9F 87 A9 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 262, 360 237 207 251 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF2, 0xD83C 0xDDE9 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf2, d83cdde9 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56818, 55356 56809 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F2 0x0001F1E9 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F2, 01F1E9 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127474, 127465 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F2\U0001F1E9" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb2\xf0\x9f\x87\xa9" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF2\uD83C\uDDE9" |
