A calm splash of blue with a golden circle slightly left of center, the flag of Palau looks like a full moon floating over tropical waters—because that’s exactly the vibe. On Apple/iOS, it appears as a softly waving rectangle on a slim gray pole, with a bright yellow disk set toward the hoist, crisp flat colors, and gentle fabric folds that make the moon pop against the sky-sea cyan. It’s instantly recognizable to designers for that purposeful off-center circle, which doubles as catnip for alignment nerds and a meme for “my OCD is screaming.”
Beyond aesthetics, the emoji reps the island nation of Palau in Micronesia—think Rock Islands, Jellyfish Lake, and world-class diving. The yellow disc symbolizes the full moon (peace, calm, good times), while the blue fields the endless Pacific. You’ll see it dropped in travel brag posts, scuba logs, and any feed curating ocean-core serenity, as well as during Palauan celebrations and diaspora pride moments.
Online, it also gets playful: people joke it’s an egg yolk on a pool, or use it as a minimalist “full-moon energy” badge when the group chat needs chill. Pair it with waves and sparkles to manifest island time, or use it ironically when life’s chaotic but your vibe is still smooth-sailing.
The country of Palau is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1371 of 2393 |
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| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com 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 PW Palau |
| 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) | 1f1f5, 1f1fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F5, U+1F1FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127477, 127484 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB5, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B5, F0 9F 87 BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 265, 360 237 207 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF5, 0xD83C 0xDDFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf5, d83cddfc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56821, 55356 56828 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F5 0x0001F1FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F5, 01F1FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127477, 127484 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F5\U0001F1FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb5\xf0\x9f\x87\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF5\uD83C\uDDFC" |
