The flag: South Africa emoji flexes that iconic green Y slicing the field, with a black hoist-side triangle edged in gold, crisp white fimbriations, and bold red up top/blue down below—aka the Rainbow Nation’s color remix. On Apple devices it shows as a glossy, slightly waving rectangle with soft fabric folds, no pole, and super-saturated colors that make the Y-shape instantly pop. People drop it to rep Mzansi pride, celebrate 1994’s new flag vibes, or roar for the Springboks, Proteas, and Bafana Bafana—often with rugby balls, goat emojis for GOAT status, and a casual “yoh!”. It’s also a travel stamp for Cape Town sunsets, Table Mountain selfies, Kruger safaris, and braai-by-the-pool weekends.
Online, the flag swings between heartwarming and hilariously chaotic: paired with vuvuzelas for 2010 nostalgia, or used ironically with load-shedding/Eskom memes and “just South Africa things.” SA Twitter rolls it out with “howzit,” “shap shap,” and “local is lekker,” while Amapiano and gqom drops get a mini-parade of flags in the comments. Diaspora Saffas add it to bios like a digital passport, and it shows up on Heritage Day posts, Freedom Day reflections, and Nando’s-level spicy clapbacks. Whether you’re cheering, chirping, or soft-launching your next safari playlist, this emoji brings big Ubuntu energy.
The country of South Africa is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1637 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 ZA South Africa |
| 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) | 1f1ff, 1f1e6 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1FF, U+1F1E6 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127487, 127462 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBF, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA6 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 BF, F0 9F 87 A6 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 277, 360 237 207 246 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDFF, 0xD83C 0xDDE6 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddff, d83cdde6 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56831, 55356 56806 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1FF 0x0001F1E6 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1FF, 01F1E6 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127487, 127462 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1FF\U0001F1E6" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xbf\xf0\x9f\x87\xa6" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDFF\uD83C\uDDE6" |
