= golf course → 1F6A9 🚩 triangular flag on post ⁓ 26F3 FE0E text style ⁓ 26F3 FE0F emoji style
Information
On Apple/iOS, it appears as a vivid red triangular flag on a slender pole, set into a small lime-green oval of turf with a crisp white cup—subtle shading, a gentle 3D lean, and notably no golf ball. It’s easy to spot in feeds and group chats, often teamed with the golfer emoji, a trophy, or a sparkle stack. Meme-wise, it swings ironic after a whiff (“yeah, hole-in-one—if the cup was in the parking lot”) or flirty for mini-golf date bragging rights.
Culturally, it channels country-club aesthetics, Sunday “Fore!” shout-outs from golf dads, and big-tournament hype—from Masters-watch parties to Tiger-in-red nostalgia. Outside pure sports, it doubles as shorthand for staking a claim, clearing a level, or a capture-the-flag moment in gaming threads. Drop it when you seal the final point, lock in the W, or announce arrival at the 19th hole (translation: snack time).
At its core, this emoji is the little victory marker on the putting green—the place where the ball is meant to finally go home. People use it for real golf plans, mini-golf date flexes, or to declare “mission accomplished” when a task sinks into the metaphorical cup. In work chats, it flags milestones, ship days, and any moment someone wants to plant their flag and call it done and dusted.
Definition
You can see the dimples of the golf ball clearly in this icon. iOS 5 updated image to accurately reflect the emoji definition! iEmoji old name: Golf Ball.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
The code generated for this emoji was changed slightly in iOS 7 / OSX 10.9 (a variation selector was added) advising the OS to display character emoji style instead of black and white text when available. We don't mind Apple, thank you! We just love our emojis! [Sources 11438-emoji-var.pdf 13.7 Variation Selectors (unicode.org)]
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
858 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:golf:
Keywords
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols
Unicode Range
2600–26FF
Unicode Subcategory
Map Symbols from ARIB STD B24
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Sport Symbols
Names & Annotations
FLAG IN HOLE = ARIB-9126 Temporary Notes: Unified with U+26F3 = ARIB-9126. Golf (DoCoMo is golf club, others are the green and flag).
Symbol Information
⛳ U+26F3 unified (Unicode 5.2)
Proposal Identifier
e-7D2
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#23 'Golf' ゴルフ 「gorufu」 U+E654 SJIS-F8B5 JIS-7838
KDDI
#306 ゴルフ 「gorufu」 U+E599 SJIS-F7B6 JIS-7838
Softbank
#156 #old20 ゴルフ 「gorufu」 U+E014 SJIS-F954
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
⛳
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
⛳
Decimal HTML Entity
⛳
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
⛳
Hex Code Point(s)
26f3
Formal Unicode Notation
U+26F3
Decimal Code Point(s)
9971
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x9B 0xB3
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 9B B3
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 233 263
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x26F3
UTF-16 Hex
26f3
UTF-16 Dec
9971
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000026F3
UTF-32 Hex
26F3
UTF-32 Dec
9971
Python Src
u"\u26F3"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x9b\xb3"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u26F3"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 7 - 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)
26f3, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+26F3, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)
9971, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x9B 0xB3, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 9B B3, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 233 263, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x26F3, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex
26f3, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec
9971, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000026F3 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex
26F3, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec
9971, 65039
Python Src
u"\u26F3\uFE0F"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x9b\xb3\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u26F3\uFE0F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
