The flag: New Zealand emoji plants a digital pin in Aotearoa—home of the haka, hobbits, and outrageously photogenic landscapes. It shows the classic blue ensign with the Union Jack in the top-left and four red stars with white borders forming the Southern Cross on the right. Pro tip for the eternal internet debate: this is not Australia’s flag—count the stars (four, not five) and there’s no big Commonwealth Star either. People drop it during rugby hype for the All Blacks, travel brags from Queenstown bungee platforms, and cheeky “reporting in from the future” posts thanks to NZ’s time-zone flex.
On Apple devices, the emoji appears as a crisply rendered, gently waving rectangle without a pole: deep navy field, a sharp Union Jack in the canton, and four five-pointed red stars neatly outlined in white to the fly side. The subtle shading gives it a silky, 3D flutter that feels mid-sea-breeze. Online, it doubles as a Kiwi identity badge in bios, a Middle‑earth check-in for Hobbiton selfies, and a playful clapback in “Aussie vs Kiwi” banter. You’ll also see it paired with fern or rugby ball emojis, plus “kia ora” captions and Taika‑level deadpan humor. Bonus cultural nugget: despite the famous 2016 flag referendum chatter, the silver fern isn’t on the national flag—so the emoji keeps the traditional look while the timeline keeps memeing.
This emoji represents the country of New Zealand.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1122 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 NZ New Zealand |
| 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, 1f1ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F3, U+1F1FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127475, 127487 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB3, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B3, F0 9F 87 BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 263, 360 237 207 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF3, 0xD83C 0xDDFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf3, d83cddff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56819, 55356 56831 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F3 0x0001F1FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F3, 01F1FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127475, 127487 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F3\U0001F1FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb3\xf0\x9f\x87\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF3\uD83C\uDDFF" |
