The Philippines flag emoji brings big Mabuhay energy: a blue stripe over red, hugging a white triangle with a golden sun (eight chunky rays) and three gold stars. On Apple/iOS it appears as a crisp, gently waving rectangle—no pole—showing saturated royal blue up top, deep red below, and a bright gold sun and stars snug in the left triangle. Those visual cues are unmistakable: the sun’s eight rays nod to the first provinces that revolted, and the three stars rep the big island groups Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
Online, it’s pure Pinoy pride—dropped in captions for Independence Day (June 12), Gilas Pilipinas tip-offs, Manny Pacquiao watch parties, beauty pageant finals, P-pop drops, and every “Pinoy here!” roll call under viral videos. Diaspora and OFW communities use it to rally support, send love back home, or flex that balikbayan energy. Food and fiesta posts? Expect 🇵🇭 next to adobo, sinigang, halo-halo, and a Jollibee bee sighting, plus the occasional jeepney glam shot. It’s also paired with 🎤 for karaoke supremacy, because hitting Birit Mode is basically a national sport.
Meme-wise, folks joke about flipping to “red on top” as war mode when comment sections get heated or during sweaty ranked matches—yes, it’s a historic detail, and no, the emoji itself won’t auto-invert. You’ll also see it in supportive threads during typhoons with bayanihan and laban vibes, or playfully alongside “sana all,” “char,” and “skl” in tweets that are 30% sincerity, 70% kilig. Whether it’s pageant stanning, beach-bragging from Boracay/Palawan, or a friendly adobo vs. sinigang debate, this flag plants a proud, sunny pin on any post.
This flag represents the country of Philippines.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1123 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 PH Philippines |
| 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, 1f1ed |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F5, U+1F1ED |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127477, 127469 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB5, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B5, F0 9F 87 AD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 265, 360 237 207 255 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF5, 0xD83C 0xDDED |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf5, d83cdded |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56821, 55356 56813 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F5 0x0001F1ED |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F5, 01F1ED |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127477, 127469 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F5\U0001F1ED" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb5\xf0\x9f\x87\xad" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF5\uD83C\uDDED" |
