Flag: South Africa Emoji
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What does the Flag: South Africa emoji mean?
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South Africa’s national flag was created in March 1994 and officially adopted on 27 April 1994 — the date of the country’s 1994 general election — replacing the banner used from 1928 to 1994. What looks like one symbol is a flag sequence: 🇿 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter Z plus 🇦 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter A, joined by the font rather than by the keyboard.
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The Republic of South Africa's rectangular flag is a vibrant mosaic of black, white, gold, red, green and blue, featuring a striking horizontal Y-shaped pattern that sweeps across its field.
These colors speak to South Africa's past, present and future and carry deep symbolic meaning. The banner is widely regarded as the country's most multicolored.
Also Known As
- 🇿🇦 South African Flag
Apple Name
- 🇿🇦 Flag of South Africa
Unicode Name
- 🇿🇦 Flag: South Africa
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🇿🇦 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F1FF U+1F1E6
Shortcodes
- works in Slack
- works in Github
- works in Emojipedia
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%87%BF%F0%9F%87%A6 |
| Punycode | xn--e77hrb |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 87 BF F0 9F 87 A6 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDDFF\uD83C\uDDE6 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f1ff\U0001f1e6 |
| CSS | \01F1FF \01F1E6 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F1FF}\u{1F1E6} |
| Perl | \x{1F1FF}\x{1F1E6} |
| HTML hex | 🇿🇦 |
| HTML dec | 🇿🇦 |