Four red stars mark the Southern Cross in the fly, pinned to the positions of Acrux, Mimosa, Gacrux, and Delta Crucis, while the Union Jack in the corner keeps the British-colony history visible. Designed in 1869 by a Royal Navy officer, the deep blue field stands for the surrounding Pacific sky and sea, and it's a fixture at rugby and cricket matches alike.
What 🇳🇿 means
A navy blue union flag sprinkled with four five-pointed red stars with navy blue borders to the right of the ensign.The 🇳🇿 Flag: New Zealand emoji refers to the Southwestern Pacific island nation, New Zealand.
This emoji is shown as 'NZ' on some platforms.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇳🇿 Flag of New Zealand
- 🇳🇿 New Zealander Flag
- 🇳🇿 Kiwi Flag (not sure how polite that is, but apparently it counts)
- 🇳🇿 Country Code - NZ
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F3 U+1F1FF- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:new_zealand:GitHub:flag-nz:Slack:flag_nz:Discord:nz: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: New Zealand or 📢 Loudspeaker?