A single gold disc, set slightly off-center toward the hoist, is the whole design on Palau's sky-blue flag. The disc is the full moon, considered the best time across Palau for fishing, planting, and canoe-carving, and its off-center placement is meant to suggest a nation still moving forward. Palau adopted it in 1994, on gaining independence from the United States.
What 🇵🇼 means
A sky-blue flag with a large yellow disc placed a little to the left from the center. The 🇵🇼 Flag: Palau emoji refers to the island country, Palau, formally known as the Republic of Palau. It is found to the west of the Pacific Ocean.
This emoji is shown as 'PW' on some platforms.PW
The flag itself shows a golden-yellow full moon, slightly off-center toward the hoist, on ocean blue — serenity itself in flag form. 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 Palau
- 🇵🇼 Flag of the Republic of Palau
- 🇵🇼 Palauan Flag
- 🇵🇼 Country Code - PW
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F5 U+1F1FC- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:palau:GitHub:flag-pw:Slack:flag_pw:Discord:pw: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: Palau or 🇺🇳 Flag: United Nations?