🇼🇸 Flag: Samoa
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Emoji Meaning
1
After New Zealand forces captured Samoa on 29 August 1914, they used a defaced ensign bearing three encircled palm trees on the fly. The Samoa flag emoji is a flag sequence combining 🇼 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter W and 🇸 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter S. These display as a single emoji on supported platforms.
2
The Samoa flag emoji shows a red field with a blue rectangle in the upper-left corner that contains five five-pointed stars — one small, three medium and one large — representing the Southern Cross constellation as it appears on the national flag.
Also Known As
- 🇼🇸 Samoan Flag
Apple Name
- 🇼🇸 Flag of Samoa
Unicode Name
- 🇼🇸 Flag: Samoa
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🇼🇸 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F1FC U+1F1F8
Shortcodes
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| URL escape code | %F0%9F%87%BC%F0%9F%87%B8 |
| Punycode | xn--w77hha |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 87 BC F0 9F 87 B8 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDDFC\uD83C\uDDF8 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f1fc\U0001f1f8 |
| CSS | \01F1FC \01F1F8 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F1FC}\u{1F1F8} |
| Perl | \x{1F1FC}\x{1F1F8} |
| HTML hex | 🇼🇸 |
| HTML dec | 🇼🇸 |