Hinomaru means circle of the sun, and that's the whole design: one red disc, dead center, on plain white. It wasn't made Japan's official flag by law until 1999, even though the same design had flown since the 1870s, and now it covers everything from anime fandom to a plain trip to Tokyo.
What 🇯🇵 means
A white rectangular flag with a big red dot at the center. The 🇯🇵 Flag: Japan emoji represents the East Asian island country of Japan. This emoji is shown as 'JP' on some platforms that don't support flag emojis.
The flag itself shows the Hinomaru: a crimson disc, the rising sun, centered on pure white — flag minimalism perfected. 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 Japan
- 🇯🇵 Japanese Flag
- 🇯🇵 Regional Indicator Symbol Letters JP
- 🇯🇵 Country Code - JP
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1EF U+1F1F5- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:jp::flag-jp:Slack:flag_jp: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: Japan or 🦔 Hedgehog?