Blue–white–blue and ready to wave, the El Salvador flag emoji reps the tri-band with a teeny-tiny coat of arms smack in the middle. On Apple/iOS it’s a slightly wavy rectangle (no pole), deep cobalt up top and bottom with a crisp white stripe across the center, plus a microscopic crest that often reads as a gold-green speck—there’s shading from top-left to bottom-right that gives it that glossy, breeze-in-the-pixels look. If you zoom in, the emblem hints at the iconic triangle and laurel, but at chat speed it’s basically “blue, white, blue, let’s go.” Instant visual: compact, clean, and unmistakably Central American.
Online, it’s the go-to for Salvadoran pride—bios, display names, and victory tweets when La Selecta pulls off a spicy result. You’ll see it paired with surfboards and waves for “Surf City” hype, volcanoes for that Land of Volcanoes energy, pupusas for obvious reasons (pupusa supremacy, anyone?), and lately the occasional Bitcoin stack for El Zonte/Bitcoin Beach chatter. It pops on Sept 15 for Independence Day, during qualifiers with #SLV, and in diaspora check-ins: “Reporting live from L.A. with my abuela’s curtido.” Used playfully, it can flex heritage, celebrate a pupusa date night, or clap back when someone confuses Salvador with El Salvador—blue-white-blue to set the record straight.
This emoji represents the country of El Salvador.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1309 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 SV El Salvador |
| 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) | 1f1f8, 1f1fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F8, U+1F1FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127480, 127483 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B8, F0 9F 87 BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 270, 360 237 207 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF8, 0xD83C 0xDDFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf8, d83cddfb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56824, 55356 56827 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F8 0x0001F1FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F8, 01F1FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127480, 127483 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F8\U0001F1FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb8\xf0\x9f\x87\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF8\uD83C\uDDFB" |
