The flag: Réunion emoji waves for the French overseas department in the Indian Ocean—aka La Réunion, the volcanic, vanilla-scented island east of Madagascar. Online, it pops up in travel flex posts, diaspora pride bios, and any message that basically means “BRB, relocating to paradise.” You’ll see it paired with volcano, palm tree, and wave emojis to telegraph hikes up Piton de la Fournaise in the morning and beach sunsets by evening. It also shows up in foodie chats (hello, Bourbon vanilla and cari) and in playful one-liners like “Mood: booking a one-way to 974.”
On Apple devices, this emoji appears as a small, glossy French tricolour—vertical blue, white, and red bands—on a slim silver flagpole with soft ripples, because Réunion’s official flag is the French national flag. People who know the island might also think of the striking unofficial local design with a volcano and yellow sunbeams, but that’s not what the emoji shows. In group chats, it can be used sarcastically to say “I’m escaping adulthood to an island,” or flirtatiously as in “Let’s do a tropical meetup?” It’s a staple in Instagram captions tagged with #LaReunion, in travel threads comparing surf spots at Saint-Leu, and in proud “974 represent” posts celebrating maloya beats, Creole culture, sugarcane fields, and that forever-summer vibe.
The country of Réunion is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1319 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 RE Réunion |
| 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) | 1f1f7, 1f1ea |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F7, U+1F1EA |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127479, 127466 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAA |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B7, F0 9F 87 AA |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 267, 360 237 207 252 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF7, 0xD83C 0xDDEA |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf7, d83cddea |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56823, 55356 56810 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F7 0x0001F1EA |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F7, 01F1EA |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127479, 127466 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F7\U0001F1EA" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb7\xf0\x9f\x87\xaa" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF7\uD83C\uDDEA" |
