The Rwanda flag emoji is a crisp rectangle of sky blue, sunshine yellow, and lush green, crowned by a golden sunburst tucked in the top-right—aka the easiest way to text “bright vibes from the Land of a Thousand Hills.” On Apple/iOS it appears as a clean, pole-free rectangle with subtle fabric shading: the blue takes the entire top half, a bright yellow band slices the middle, and a deep green base anchors it, with a precise spiky sun (24 rays!) glowing in the upper-right corner. People drop it to rep Kigali pride, shout out Tour du Rwanda cycling highlights, celebrate Amavubi wins, or flex their specialty-coffee order from beans grown on those famous hills. It’s also a go-to in travel posts and diaspora threads, often paired with sun, mountain, and gorilla emojis for maximum “Rwanda itinerary” energy.
Culturally, the flag’s modern design (adopted in 2001) signals optimism and renewal, which is why you’ll see it used with heart and sparkle emojis when the mood is hopeful. Online, it pops up in sports banter, under “Visit Rwanda” mentions during Premier League discourse, and in meme-y captions like “sending solar-powered productivity from Kigali.” Expect it in posts about gorilla trekking at Volcanoes National Park, the Kwita Izina baby-gorilla naming ceremony, or a humble brag about the nation’s famously tidy streets after Umuganda. When someone pairs it with a coffee cup and sunrise, you can safely assume they’re channeling Rwanda’s top-tier brew and early-bird hustle.
The country of Rwanda is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1702 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 RW Rwanda |
| 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, 1f1fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F7, U+1F1FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127479, 127484 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B7, F0 9F 87 BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 267, 360 237 207 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF7, 0xD83C 0xDDFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf7, d83cddfc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56823, 55356 56828 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F7 0x0001F1FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F7, 01F1FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127479, 127484 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F7\U0001F1FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb7\xf0\x9f\x87\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF7\uD83C\uDDFC" |
