The flag: Vatican City emoji throws up the tiniest-but-mightiest flex on your screen: a gold-and-white split with the papal coat of arms—two crossed keys (one gold, one silver) tied with a red cord—topped by the triple-tiered papal tiara. On Apple/iOS it appears as a crisp, slightly waving rectangle (even though the real flag is famously square), with the emblem detailed on the white half so small yet unmistakable you’ll still clock the keys. People drop this when talking Catholic news, papal trips, or that once-in-a-decade conclave suspense—cue the white-smoke memes and “Habemus Papam!” captions.
Online, it doubles as the “holy vibes only” banner: used jokingly when someone swears they’re logging off to confess, when your playlist goes full Gregorian chant-core, or when a friend needs divine intervention to pass finals. It also pops up ironically to bless chaotic group chats, roast sinful snack choices, or salute the Swiss Guard’s drip. Basically, if the topic is the Pope, St. Peter’s Basilica, or being extra sanctified (or sanctified-but-in-a-meme way), this flag is your reverent-meets-reaction emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1442 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 Vatican City Vatican City |
| 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) | 1f1fb, 1f1e6 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1FB, U+1F1E6 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127483, 127462 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xBB, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xA6 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 BB, F0 9F 87 A6 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 273, 360 237 207 246 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDFB, 0xD83C 0xDDE6 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddfb, d83cdde6 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56827, 55356 56806 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1FB 0x0001F1E6 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1FB, 01F1E6 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127483, 127462 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1FB\U0001F1E6" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xbb\xf0\x9f\x87\xa6" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDFB\uD83C\uDDE6" |
