Green, white, red — the flag: Mexico emoji rolls in like a mariachi trumpet fanfare. It’s the go-to for cheering on El Tri, hyping tacos that actually slap, celebrating 16 de septiembre (Independence Day), or just dropping a proud ¡Viva México! in the group chat. People pair it with fire, chili pepper, and party emojis to signal spice levels, fiesta energy, or that one cousin’s legendary salsa. It also shows up playfully or sarcastically: “I can handle spicy” (drops this flag and three fire emojis), or when someone hears a corrido and instantly turns the volume to 100.
On Apple/iOS, the flag appears as a gently waving rectangle with crisp vertical bands—green at the hoist, white in the middle, red at the fly—and a surprisingly detailed tiny coat of arms: an eagle gripping a snake while perched on a nopal cactus. Even at emoji size, you can usually spot the eagle’s silhouette centered on the white stripe, which is the visual giveaway. Online, it’s a shorthand for Mexican pride, Mexican Spanish vibes (órale, wey), and food posts that are decidedly not “Tex-Mex only.” Expect it all over soccer timelines, Cinco de Mayo posts in the U.S. (with the obligatory “this isn’t Independence Day” correction), and any thread where someone breaks out conchas, pozole, or a Lucha Libre mask.
The country of Mexico is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 873 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 MX Mexico |
| 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, 1f1fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F2, U+1F1FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127474, 127485 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB2, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B2, F0 9F 87 BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 262, 360 237 207 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF2, 0xD83C 0xDDFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf2, d83cddfd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56818, 55356 56829 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F2 0x0001F1FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F2, 01F1FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127474, 127485 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F2\U0001F1FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb2\xf0\x9f\x87\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF2\uD83C\uDDFD" |
