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🏳️‍🌈Rainbow Flag Emoji

Q: What does the 🏳️🌈 rainbow flag emoji mean?

🏳️🌈 is the rainbow flag emoji, tagged bisexual, flag and gay. 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.

🏳️‍🌈 rainbow flag is encoded at U+1F3F3 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F308 and shipped with Emoji 4.0 (2016). Unicode files it under Flags → Other Flags, alongside 7 related emojis.

What 🏳️‍🌈 rainbow 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 bisexual, flag and gay and files it under Flags → Other Flags.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How 🏳️‍🌈 is built

This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.

🏳U+1F3F3white flag
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
·U+200DZero-width joiner
🌈U+1F308rainbow

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F3F3 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F308`
HTML hex	`🏳️‍🌈`
HTML decimal	`🏳️‍🌈`
CSS	`\1F3F3\FE0F\200D\1F308`
JavaScript	`\u{1F3F3}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{1F308}`
Python	`\U0001F3F3\U0000FE0F\U0000200D\U0001F308`
Java / C#	`\uD83C\uDFF3\uFE0F\u200D\uD83C\uDF08`
Rust	`\u{1f3f3}\u{fe0f}\u{200d}\u{1f308}`
Swift	`\u{1F3F3}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{1F308}`
PHP	`\u{1F3F3}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{1F308}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%8F%B3%EF%B8%8F%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8C%88`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 8F B3 EF B8 8F E2 80 8D F0 9F 8C 88`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83C DFF3 FE0F 200D D83C DF08`
Base64	`8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=`
Decimal	`127987 65039 8205 127752`
Introduced	Emoji 4.0 (2016)

Keywords

bisexual
flag
gay
genderqueer
glbt
glbtq
lesbian
lgbt
lgbtq
lgbtqia
pride
queer
rainbow
trans
transgender

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How to type 🏳️‍🌈

Windows — press Win + . and search “rainbow flag”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bisexual”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f3f3 and 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 🏳️‍🌈 rainbow flag emoji mean?+

🏳️‍🌈 is the rainbow flag emoji, tagged bisexual, flag and gay. 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 🏳️‍🌈?+

rainbow flag is U+1F3F3 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F308. In HTML that is 🏳️‍🌈, in CSS \1F3F3\FE0F\200D\1F308, and in JavaScript \u{1F3F3}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{1F308}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🏳️‍🌈 emoji added?+

rainbow flag got its emoji presentation in Emoji 4.0 (2016). 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.

Added in Emoji 4.0 (2016)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🏳️‍🌈 rainbow flag.