The flag: Taiwan emoji plants a bright red field with a deep blue canton in the top-left and a crisp white 12‑rayed sun. On Apple/iOS it shows as a neatly waving rectangle, no pole, with soft fabric folds and a slight 3D tilt. The blue square looks saturated, the sun’s spiky rays are clean and evenly spaced, and the red really pops against dark mode. It’s instantly recognizable as the Blue Sky, White Sun, Red Earth design.
People drop this flag for travel flexes, night‑market food dumps, or when texting "boba run" with extra national flavor. It doubles as a pride ping for the Taiwanese diaspora, a timezone check-in, or a subtle "shipped from Taiwan" nod in tech threads. During sports and esports, you’ll see it spammed in chats to cheer Team Taiwan, sometimes labeled Chinese Taipei in tournaments. It also shows up in Lunar New Year posts, earthquake or typhoon updates, and feel-good civic moments with a supportive vibe.
Meme-wise, it pairs beautifully with bubble tea, pineapple cake, and beef noodle soup content, plus the classic stinky tofu dare. Some use it playfully or sarcastically—drop the flag next to "authentic boba only" and you’ve started a whole comment section. Culturally, folks associate it with Taipei 101 selfies, scooter seas, indie design markets, and that unmistakable night-market neon. Clean, bold, and highly taggable, this flag reads as both location pin and identity signal—small icon, big energy.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1216 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: | Flag of Taiwan Taiwan |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - 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, 1f1fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F9, U+1F1FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127481, 127484 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB9, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B9, F0 9F 87 BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 271, 360 237 207 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF9, 0xD83C 0xDDFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf9, d83cddfc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56825, 55356 56828 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F9 0x0001F1FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F9, 01F1FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127481, 127484 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F9\U0001F1FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb9\xf0\x9f\x87\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF9\uD83C\uDDFC" |
