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🇼🇸Flag: Samoa Emoji
🇼🇸 is the flag: Samoa emoji, U+1F1FC U+1F1F8, one of 259 in the Country Flags set. It arrived with Emoji 2.0 (2015) and is commonly used for WS, flag.
Not seeing the flag? Windows has never included country flag glyphs, so Chrome and Edge draw the two letters WS instead of 🇼🇸. Nothing is wrong with the character — copy it and it appears correctly on iPhone, Android and Mac, and in WhatsApp, Instagram and Discord. This page loads a flag font so it draws properly here regardless.
What 🇼🇸 flag: Samoa means
Country flags do identity work: nationality in a bio, a football result, the language somebody is learning, a trip just booked, a dish claimed as local. Each one is a pair of regional indicator letters matching a two-letter ISO 3166-1 code rather than a picture, so a device without the artwork simply shows the two letters. Windows has done this for years.
Unicode tags this one WS, flag and files it under Flags → Country Flags.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🇼🇸 is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🇼U+1F1FCRegional indicator W
- 🇸U+1F1F8Regional indicator S
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F1FC U+1F1F8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🇼🇸 | |
| HTML decimal | 🇼🇸 | |
| CSS | \1F1FC\1F1F8 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F1FC}\u{1F1F8} | |
| Python | \U0001F1FC\U0001F1F8 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDDFC\uD83C\uDDF8 | |
| Rust | \u{1f1fc}\u{1f1f8} | |
| Swift | \u{1F1FC}\u{1F1F8} | |
| PHP | \u{1F1FC}\u{1F1F8} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%87%BC%F0%9F%87%B8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 87 BC F0 9F 87 B8 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DDFC D83C DDF8 | |
| Base64 | 8J+HvPCfh7g= | |
| Decimal | 127484 127480 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 2.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
- WS
- flag
Appears in these collections
How to type 🇼🇸
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “flag: Samoa”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “WS”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f1fcand 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 🇼🇸 flag: Samoa emoji mean?+
🇼🇸 is the flag: Samoa emoji, tagged WS, flag. Country flags do identity work: nationality in a bio, a football result, the language somebody is learning, a trip just booked, a dish claimed as local. Each one is a pair of regional indicator letters matching a two-letter ISO 3166-1 code rather than a picture, so a device without the artwork simply shows the two letters. Windows has done this for years.
What is the Unicode code for 🇼🇸?+
flag: Samoa is U+1F1FC U+1F1F8. In HTML that is 🇼🇸, in CSS \1F1FC\1F1F8, and in JavaScript \u{1F1FC}\u{1F1F8}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🇼🇸 emoji added?+
flag: Samoa got its emoji presentation in Emoji 2.0 (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 Country Flags in Flags.
Added in Emoji 2.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🇼🇸 flag: Samoa.