The flag emoji of Timor-Leste pops with a bold red field sliced by a yellow triangle and a deeper black triangle at the hoist, crowned with a crisp white five-pointed star. On Apple/iOS, it appears as a gently waving banner at a slight angle, with soft fabric folds, clean edges, and the star standing upright and centered in that inky black wedge—instantly recognizable even thumbnail-sized.
It’s the go-to for shouting out Dili, cheering national teams, or flexing a Southeast Asia itinerary that wasn’t just Bali-and-bounce. You’ll see it in posts about May 20 Independence Day, in diaspora pride captions, and in threads where someone drops the fun fact that “Timor-Leste” basically means “East-East.” Online, it reads as small-but-mighty energy—the bright star-in-the-dark-triangle gives quiet-power vibes—and it sometimes appears when people type “TL” and their keyboard cheekily serves the flag instead of “TL;DR.” Use it to signal coffee snobbery (hello, Timor beans), reef-diving dreams on Atauro Island, or to add some red–black–yellow aesthetic heat to a travel carousel. Historically, the colors carry struggle-and-resilience undertones after a hard-won 2002 independence, blending Lusophone roots with a Southeast Asian heartbeat. Visually loud yet elegantly simple, this emoji works for solidarity posts, geography-nerd flexes, and that wink-wink caption where you say you’re “seeing stars,” then drop the one painted right on the flag.
The country of Timor-Leste is represented by this flag.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1440 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 TL Timor-Leste |
| 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) | 1f1f9, 1f1f1 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F9, U+1F1F1 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127481, 127473 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB9, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB1 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B9, F0 9F 87 B1 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 271, 360 237 207 261 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF9, 0xD83C 0xDDF1 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf9, d83cddf1 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56825, 55356 56817 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F9 0x0001F1F1 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F9, 01F1F1 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127481, 127473 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F9\U0001F1F1" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb9\xf0\x9f\x87\xb1" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF9\uD83C\uDDF1" |
