This emoji tags the sunny French Caribbean island of Martinique, even if your screen shows what looks exactly like the French flag. On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy, gently waving rectangle with vertical blue–white–red stripes, no emblem—so at a glance it’s indistinguishable from France. People drop it to rep the island, flex a beach getaway, post Carnival fits, shout out Creole culture and zouk playlists, or share that “mentally I’m in the Caribbean” energy during a dreary Monday.
Cultural note: some folks associate Martinique with the old blue flag featuring a white cross and four fer‑de‑lance snakes—a historic maritime ensign tied to the colonial era and not an official flag today—so the emoji won’t show snakes. Online, you might see users pair the flag with a 🐍, 🌴, or 🍹 to make the island vibe unmistakable, or to avoid confusion with 🇫🇷. It also pops up in sports chats when cheering France but repping the Antilles, and in travel memes as the ultimate OOO status: sun, sea, and zero emails.
Visually on iOS, expect a crisp, 3D‑shaded tricolor ripple with clean edges and no text—so people often add “MQ,” palm trees, or a rum glass to clarify. Translation: if it looks like France but the caption screams Fort‑de‑France, volcano views, and yole boat races, you’re looking at Martinique.
The country of Martinique is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1793 of 2393 |
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| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
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| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters MQ Martinique |
| 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, 1f1f6 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F2, U+1F1F6 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127474, 127478 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB2, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB6 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B2, F0 9F 87 B6 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 262, 360 237 207 266 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF2, 0xD83C 0xDDF6 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf2, d83cddf6 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56818, 55356 56822 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F2 0x0001F1F6 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F2, 01F1F6 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127474, 127478 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F2\U0001F1F6" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb2\xf0\x9f\x87\xb6" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF2\uD83C\uDDF6" |
