This flag waves in pure island sunshine: a bold golden eagle on a bright white field, clutching an olive branch and three arrows with big blue letters “V” and “I” flanking the sides. It represents the U.S. Virgin Islands—St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix—with those three arrows nodding to the trio of main islands. People drop it in captions for beach getaways, cruise ship check-ins, and posts that basically scream “island time” and SPF 50. It’s also a pride marker for locals and diaspora during Carnival season, fete pics, and steelpan-soca soundtracks.
Online, this emoji is a top-tier travel flex—often stacked with palm trees, waves, cocktails, and sun emojis for maximum vacay energy. You’ll see it during hurricane updates for solidarity, and sometimes parked next to the U.S. flag to clarify the territory connection. Expect it in thirst-trap sunsets, rum-punch-fueled captions, and that soft-launch of your out-of-office.
On Apple devices, it’s a crisp, slightly waving rectangle with a clean white background, a golden eagle centered over a red-white-blue shield, olive branch in one talon, three arrows in the other, and chunky blue “V” and “I” that pop at a glance. No pole—just a glossy, fabric-like ripple that makes the emblem feel official yet beachy. It’s instantly recognizable because most flags are stripes and blocks, while this one shouts “eagle + VI” from the timeline.
This emoji represents the country of U.S. Virgin Islands.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1907 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 | |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters VI U.S. Virgin Islands |
| 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) | 1f1fb, 1f1ee |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1FB, U+1F1EE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127483, 127470 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBB, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 BB, F0 9F 87 AE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 273, 360 237 207 256 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDFB, 0xD83C 0xDDEE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddfb, d83cddee |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56827, 55356 56814 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1FB 0x0001F1EE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1FB, 01F1EE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127483, 127470 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1FB\U0001F1EE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xbb\xf0\x9f\x87\xae" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDFB\uD83C\uDDEE" |
