This emoji is the Syrian flag: a red–white–black horizontal tricolor with two green five-pointed stars parked in the center stripe. On Apple/iOS it shows as a small left-facing, gently waving rectangle on a metallic flagpole; crisp stripes, slight fabric shading, and those twin green stars that practically wink at you from the white band. The colors follow the Pan‑Arab palette, and the two stars nod to the brief union with Egypt in the late 1950s (the United Arab Republic). Visually, it’s the “spot the two green stars” shortcut every flag quiz addict knows by heart.
People drop it for heritage pride, travel chatter, football qualifiers hype, or under food posts about kibbeh, fatteh, and Aleppo pepper—instant vibes. In bios and usernames it’s a compact “I’m Syrian/with Syrian roots” flex, sometimes paired with hearts, roses, or the coffee cup for cozy diaspora energy. You’ll see it spammed in comment sections during national teams’ matches, GeoGuessr reveals, or when someone asks “where’s everyone from?” In meme mode it can be used as a location tag, a solidarity signal, or a playful punchline when the two green stars give away the answer faster than you can say Damascus. Expect it alongside mentions of Damascus steel, Damascene roses, Aleppo soap, and photos of Old City arches—because the internet loves an aesthetic rabbit hole.
This emoji represents the country of Syria.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1215 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters SY Syria |
| 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, 1f1fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F8, U+1F1FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127480, 127486 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B8, F0 9F 87 BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 270, 360 237 207 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF8, 0xD83C 0xDDFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf8, d83cddfe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56824, 55356 56830 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F8 0x0001F1FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F8, 01F1FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127480, 127486 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F8\U0001F1FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb8\xf0\x9f\x87\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF8\uD83C\uDDFE" |
