The flag: Uruguay emoji plants a sunny little face right in the corner—yep, that’s the famous Sun of May beaming from a white canton over nine sky-blue-and-white stripes. On Apple/iOS, it appears as a gently waving rectangle with crisp pale-blue bands and a golden sun sporting a serene human face and 16 alternating straight and wavy rays—instantly recognizable and low‑key majestic. People drop it alongside soccer chatter about La Celeste, mate pics, beach flexes from Punta del Este, or whenever the group chat needs a dose of garra charrúa energy.
It’s perfect for victory posts (“small country, big W”), diaspora pride, and sunny mood updates—sometimes even used cheekily as a “sun + chill” vibe because that smiley sun steals the show. Expect it in World Cup and Copa América hype, Montevideo travel reels, asado invitations, or nostalgic memes about the 1950 Maracanazo. Some use it ironically when the weather is anything but sunny, or to signal “Uruguay standards” in football debates with a wink. Pair it with a mate gourd, drum emoji for candombe, or blue hearts to go full celeste aesthetic.
This flag represents the country of Uruguay.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1129 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 | |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters UY Uruguay |
| 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) | 1f1fa, 1f1fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1FA, U+1F1FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127482, 127486 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBA, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 BA, F0 9F 87 BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 272, 360 237 207 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDFA, 0xD83C 0xDDFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddfa, d83cddfe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56826, 55356 56830 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1FA 0x0001F1FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1FA, 01F1FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127482, 127486 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1FA\U0001F1FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xba\xf0\x9f\x87\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDFE" |
