The flag: Nicaragua shows off bold blue–white–blue stripes with the country’s coat of arms smack in the center. On Apple/iOS, it’s a gently waving rectangle with rich sky-blue bands, a crisp white middle, and a tiny but faithful seal: a triangle holding five green volcanoes between two blue seas, a rainbow arcing above, and a little red Phrygian cap, all ringed by the text “REPUBLICA DE NICARAGUA AMERICA CENTRAL.” You can almost spot the ripples in the cloth shading and the miniature serif letters—impressively detailed for something you’re squinting at in a group chat. It’s the go-to badge for Nica pride, diaspora roll call, travel flexes from Granada’s pastel streets or the Corn Islands, and hype for baseball (because in Nicaragua, béisbol is king).
People drop this flag next to nacatamal, vigorón, and quesillo cravings, or when planning that “yes, I’m volcano-boarding at Cerro Negro” weekend. Around mid-September, it lights up timelines for Fiestas Patrias—Sept 14 (Battle of San Jacinto) and Sept 15 (Central American Independence)—often captioned with “dale pues” energy. There’s also a running meme: “Not Honduras, not El Salvador”—since the blue-white-blue cousins can look alike until you clock the triangle-and-rainbow seal. Sarcastically, it pops up in comment battles like a digital vuvuzela; lovingly, it’s paired with “Nica power” and “Pinolero” to rep heritage loud and proud.
The country of Nicaragua is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1434 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 NI Nicaragua |
| 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) | 1f1f3, 1f1ee |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F3, U+1F1EE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127475, 127470 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB3, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B3, F0 9F 87 AE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 263, 360 237 207 256 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF3, 0xD83C 0xDDEE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf3, d83cddee |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56819, 55356 56814 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F3 0x0001F1EE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F3, 01F1EE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127475, 127470 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F3\U0001F1EE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb3\xf0\x9f\x87\xae" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF3\uD83C\uDDEE" |
