The flag: Tuvalu emoji sails you straight to the South Pacific—sky-blue field, a Union Jack in the top-left, and nine gold stars for the country’s islands. On iOS, it’s a gently waving rectangle with a glossy gradient: bright cyan sea, a crisp navy-and-red Union Jack canton, and nine neat, golden five-pointed stars scattered on the fly side in a map-like arrangement. The subtle shading and breezy ripple make it feel like a postcard from paradise.
People drop this flag for ocean vibes, tiny-country flexes, travel daydreams, and climate chats—often paired with 🌊🏝️⛵️ or 🐠. It doubles as a winky nod to the internet-famous .tv domain, so streamers and memelords use it when linking to a live channel or joking “broadcasting live from Tuvalu.” The calm blue + sunny stars read as chill and optimistic, but it also works ironically for “middle-of-nowhere energy” when plans sound hilariously remote.
The Union Jack hints at Commonwealth ties, while the nine stars mirror Tuvalu’s islands—small but starry. You’ll spot this emoji during Olympics flag parades or Pacific sports clips, and it often shows up in posts about sea-level rise, giving the cheery palette a quietly urgent subtext.
This emoji represents the country of Tuvalu.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1704 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 TV Tuvalu |
| 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, 1f1fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F9, U+1F1FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127481, 127483 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB9, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B9, F0 9F 87 BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 271, 360 237 207 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF9, 0xD83C 0xDDFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf9, d83cddfb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56825, 55356 56827 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F9 0x0001F1FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F9, 01F1FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127481, 127483 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F9\U0001F1FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb9\xf0\x9f\x87\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF9\uD83C\uDDFB" |
