Five gold stars sit on red: a big one for the Communist Party and four smaller ones arcing around it for unity among the people, a design settled in 1949 when the People's Republic was founded. On emoji keyboards it's the flag for Lunar New Year posts, national pride, and tagging a trip to Beijing or Shanghai.
What 🇨🇳 means
A bright red rectangular flag with a large five-pointed golden/yellow star on the top-left corner surrounded by a semi-circle of four smaller stars of the same kind to its right.
The 🇨🇳 Flag: Chine emoji represents the East Asian country of China, officially known as the People's Republic of China or the PRC. This emoji is shown as 'CN' on platforms that don't support flag emojis.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇨🇳 Chinese Flag
- 🇨🇳 China Flag
- 🇨🇳 Flag of the People's Republic of China
- 🇨🇳 PRC Flag
- 🇨🇳 Country Code - CN
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1E8 U+1F1F3- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:cn::flag-cn:Slack:flag_cn: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: China or 🏵️ Rosette?