Canada's maple leaf used to have 13 points, until someone noticed it blurred into a smudge whenever the flag flapped in the wind, so the 1965 redesign settled on a cleaner 11-point version. Red bars flank a white square, and it's the flag Canadians reach for on hockey nights and Canada Day without a second thought.
What 🇨🇦 means
A vertical triband of red and white - white occupying the center, along with a large red maple leaf that is further sandwiched by two red stripes on either side. The 🇨🇦 Flag: Canada emoji represents Canada, the northern country of North American.
This emoji is shown as 'CA' on some platforms.
The flag itself shows the unmistakable red maple leaf on white between two red bands — one of the most recognized flags on earth. As with every flag emoji, it's built from two regional-indicator letters, so a few platforms display the letter pair instead of the artwork.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇨🇦 Canadian Flag
- 🇨🇦 Flag of Canada
- 🇨🇦 Country Code - CA
- 🇨🇦 Canada Flag
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1E8 U+1F1E6- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:canada:GitHub:flag-ca:Slack:flag_ca:Discord:ca:Discord- Keywords
- flag
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🇨🇦 Flag: Canada or 🙂↔️ Head Shaking Horizontally?