A bold splash of color on your keyboard, the South Sudan flag emoji rocks black, red, and green horizontal stripes split by thin white pinstripes, with a deep blue triangle at the hoist carrying a bright gold five-pointed star. On Apple devices, it appears as a crisply rendered, slightly waving rectangle on a silver-gray pole—high-contrast colors, clean white lines, and that standout yellow star that pops even at tiny sizes. The blue triangle is unmistakable, and the balanced, saturated palette makes it one of those flags you can ID in a blink. It’s visually loud in the best way: classy, confident, and instantly recognizable in a sea of flag emojis.
Culturally, it nods to South Sudan’s 2011 independence (hello, newest-nation energy), with the golden star often read as unity and hope. People use it to rep heritage, shout out Juba, celebrate Independence Day on July 9, or mark travel updates and diaspora pride posts. Sports fans spam it during football “Bright Stars” moments and, lately, when stanning South Sudan’s hoops rise on the world stage—pure “we outside” energy. Meme-wise, you’ll see it labeled as “the one with the blue wedge and gold star,” dropped in bios for identity vibes, or paired with fire and clap emojis when something South Sudan–related absolutely slaps.
This flag represents the country of South Sudan.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1906 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 SS South Sudan |
| 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, 1f1f8 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F8, U+1F1F8 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127480, 127480 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B8, F0 9F 87 B8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 270, 360 237 207 270 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF8, 0xD83C 0xDDF8 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf8, d83cddf8 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56824, 55356 56824 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F8 0x0001F1F8 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F8, 01F1F8 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127480, 127480 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F8\U0001F1F8" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb8\xf0\x9f\x87\xb8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF8\uD83C\uDDF8" |
