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🏴Black Flag Emoji
Tagged black, flag and waving, 🏴 black flag sits in Unicode's Other Flags group inside Flags. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0 (2015) at U+1F3F4.
What 🏴 black flag means
Eight flags that belong to nobody in particular. 🏁 ends a race or a project, 🏳️ concedes an argument, and 🏴☠️ covers piracy in both senses. 🏳️🌈, built as a sequence joining the white flag to a rainbow, was added in Emoji 4.0 in 2016, with the transgender flag 🏳️⚧️ following in 2020. 🚩 now mostly warns about someone's behaviour rather than marking a spot.
Unicode tags this one black, flag and waving and files it under Flags → Other Flags.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3F4 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏴 | |
| HTML decimal | 🏴 | |
| CSS | \1F3F4 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3F4} | |
| Python | \U0001F3F4 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFF4 | |
| Rust | \u{1f3f4} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3F4} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3F4} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%B4 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F B4 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFF4 | |
| Base64 | 8J+PtA== | |
| Decimal | 127988 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🏴
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “black flag”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “black”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3f4and Enter. - HTML — paste
🏴.
How 🏴 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🏴Apple
- 🏴Segoe
- 🏴Noto
- 🏴System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🏴 black flag emoji mean?+
🏴 is the black flag emoji, tagged black, flag and waving. Eight flags that belong to nobody in particular. 🏁 ends a race or a project, 🏳️ concedes an argument, and 🏴☠️ covers piracy in both senses. 🏳️🌈, built as a sequence joining the white flag to a rainbow, was added in Emoji 4.0 in 2016, with the transgender flag 🏳️⚧️ following in 2020. 🚩 now mostly warns about someone's behaviour rather than marking a spot.
What is the Unicode code for 🏴?+
black flag is U+1F3F4. In HTML that is 🏴, in CSS \1F3F4, and in JavaScript \u{1F3F4}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏴 emoji added?+
black flag got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Other Flags in Flags.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🏴 black flag.