Red for the blood spent in centuries of battles, white for the country's rivers and fidelity, green for its forests and hope — Hungary's horizontal tricolor has carried that reading since the 1848 revolution put it on soldiers' uniforms. The colors go back further, to a 13th-century flag under King Bela III, though the modern stripes weren't official until 1957.
What 🇭🇺 means
A horizontal triband of a red stripe at the top, green at the bottom, sandwiching a white stripe in between. The 🇭🇺 Flag: Hungary emoji represents a Central European country known as Hungary. It is shown as 'HU' on some platforms.
The flag itself shows horizontal red, white, and green bands — strength, faithfulness, and hope in the traditional reading. 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
- 🇭🇺 Flag of Hungary
- 🇭🇺 Hungarian Flag
- 🇭🇺 Hungary Flag
- 🇭🇺 Country Code - HU
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1ED U+1F1FA- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:hungary:GitHub:flag-hu:Slack:flag_hu:Discord:hu: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: Hungary or 📠 Fax Machine?