The flag: Somalia emoji drops a serene sky-blue field with a crisp white five-pointed star centered—clean, minimalist, instantly recognizable. On Apple/iOS it appears as a gently waving rectangular flag on a slim gray pole, with soft fabric shading and a sharp, snow-white star that pops against the cerulean. The color famously echoes UN blue, while the lone star symbolizes unity across Somali communities. Even shrunk to emoji size, it reads as calm blue plus bold star energy.
Online, people flex it for Somali pride, diaspora roots, football hype, and Independence Day (July 1) celebrations, or to mark “you’ve reached SomaliTok.” It’s a perfect bio badge or quick reply to “Where are you from?”—just drop the flag with a 💙⭐. Meme-wise, it often rolls with 🌊 for the Indian Ocean coastline, 🐪 for desert vibes, or foodie posts starring sambuusa and canjeero. You’ll also see playful or dramatic uses—like “repping the motherland, brb” with the flag—and the occasional five-star joke, because that one white star gives major “premium blue” energy.
This flag represents the country of Somalia.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1563 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 | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters SO Somalia |
| 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, 1f1f4 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F8, U+1F1F4 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127480, 127476 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB8, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB4 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B8, F0 9F 87 B4 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 270, 360 237 207 264 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF8, 0xD83C 0xDDF4 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf8, d83cddf4 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56824, 55356 56820 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F8 0x0001F1F4 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F8, 01F1F4 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127480, 127476 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F8\U0001F1F4" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb8\xf0\x9f\x87\xb4" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF8\uD83C\uDDF4" |
