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πͺπ· Eritrea flag emoji
The Eritrea flag emoji πͺπ· shows the national flag of Eritrea on iPhone, Android and Mac. Tap the copy button above to paste it into any message or post.
How the Eritrea flag emoji looks on different platforms
Windows does not draw country flag emoji: it shows the two letters ER instead. Emoji images: Twemoji (CC BY 4.0), Noto Emoji (Apache 2.0), OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).
What the Eritrea flag emoji means
The emoji shows Eritrea's flag: a red triangle pointing to a green upper and blue lower field, with a gold olive wreath on the red. It is used on Independence Day, 24 May, which marks the 1993 independence from Ethiopia, and by the diaspora and cycling fans.
How to type the Eritrea flag emoji
On iPhone and Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for "Eritrea" or "flag" to find πͺπ·. On a Mac, press Ctrl+Cmd+Space and type the same word. On Windows, press Win + . to open the emoji panel, but Windows does not draw flag emojis, so you will see the letters ER instead of a flag. The emoji is made of two regional indicator letters, E and R, which phones and Macs combine into one flag.
Popular combinations
- πͺπ·π΄ β Eritrean cycling
- πͺπ·β β Coffee ceremony
- πͺπ·π β The Red Sea coast
- πͺπ·ποΈ β Asmara's modernist architecture
Eritrea flag emoji codes
| Unicode | U+1F1EA U+1F1F7 |
|---|---|
| HTML entity | 🇪🇷 |
| CSS | \1F1EA\1F1F7 |
| JavaScript / JSON | \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf7 |
| Python | \U0001F1EA\U0001F1F7 |
| Shortcode | :flag_er: |
| Made of | regional indicator symbol letter E + regional indicator symbol letter R |
| Emoji version | Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 6.0 (2010) |
Eritrea flag emoji FAQ
Why does the Eritrea flag emoji show as ER on my PC?
Windows does not include flag graphics in its emoji font. Your device sees the two letters E and R and shows them as text. The same emoji displays as a flag on iPhone, Android, Mac and most websites.
How do I get the Eritrea flag emoji on Windows?
Copy πͺπ· from this page and paste it into an app that draws its own emoji, such as a browser version of Slack, Discord or X. In Notepad and some Windows apps it will still look like ER. Phones and Macs show it as a flag.
What other emojis look like the Eritrea flag?
π©π― Djibouti also has a triangle on the hoist with blue and green fields, but its triangle is white with a red star.
Which country has the flag πͺπ·?
πͺπ· is the flag of Eritrea. It has a red triangle at the hoist pointing to the fly, with a green upper triangle and a blue lower one, and a gold wreath with an olive branch on the red part. It was adopted on 5 December 1995.
What does the wreath on the Eritrea flag mean?
The gold olive wreath and upright olive branch come from the Eritrean flag of 1952 to 1962. The 30 leaves of the wreath stand for the thirty years of the independence struggle. On the rest of the flag, green stands for agriculture and livestock, blue for the bounty of the sea and red for the blood shed.
Is the Eritrea flag emoji available on iPhone?
Yes. πͺπ· is a standard flag emoji, so it is built into iPhone. Search for "Eritrea" in the emoji keyboard, or copy it from this page and paste it. It shows the red triangle, green and blue fields and the wreath. On Windows you will see the letters ER instead.