The flag: Sint Maarten emoji plants your feed squarely on a Caribbean runway-meets-beach fantasy. It shows a vivid red top, deep blue bottom, and a crisp white triangle at the hoist with a tiny coat of arms—on Apple/iOS it’s a glossy, gently waving rectangle on a silver pole, where that little crest reads as a miniature badge (it’s the Philipsburg courthouse if you squint). At small sizes, people sometimes do a double take and think “Philippines vibes,” thanks to the triangle-and-bicolor layout, but this one’s all about the Dutch Caribbean side of the split island. Color-wise and shape-wise, it’s instantly recognized by the red-over-blue diagonal break and that white left wedge.
Online, this emoji pops up in travel brags, cruise captions, and plane-spotting reels—especially the iconic low landings over Maho Beach where everyone’s hair gets a complimentary jet-blast restyle. It’s a favorite in aviation nerd threads, often paired with an airplane, beach umbrella, and cocktail to say “I’m logging off… emphatically.” People also drop it next to the Netherlands or France flags to nod at the island’s unique shared identity. Sarcastic use? Absolutely—“WFH (work from hammock) approved” or “bracing for landing, send sunscreen.” Culturally, it hints at duty-free shopping, the Heineken Regatta, and that eternal sun-vs-wifi battle. If your vibe is turquoise water, runway thrill, and breezy Dutch-Caribbean flair, this little flag does the heavy lifting with a single tap.
The country of Sint Maarten is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1636 of 2393 |
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| 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 SX Sint Maarten |
| 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, 1f1fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F8, U+1F1FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127480, 127485 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B8, F0 9F 87 BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 270, 360 237 207 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF8, 0xD83C 0xDDFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf8, d83cddfd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56824, 55356 56829 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F8 0x0001F1FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F8, 01F1FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127480, 127485 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F8\U0001F1FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb8\xf0\x9f\x87\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF8\uD83C\uDDFD" |
