Look closely and something's off: the Swiss flag is square, one of only two national flags built that way — the Vatican's is the other. The white cross on red goes back to Swiss soldiers marking their shields in the 1300s, and it became the country's official flag under the 1848 constitution.
What 🇨🇭 means
A red rectangular or square flag with a white, bold '+' (plus) printed at the center. The 🇨🇭 Flag: Switzerland emoji refers to the federal republic of Switzerland, officially known as the Swiss Confederation - a country located at the junction of western, central, and southern Europe.
This emoji is shown as 'CH' on some platforms.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇨🇭 Swiss Flag
- 🇨🇭 Flag of the Swiss Confederation
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland Flag
- 🇨🇭 Red Cross
- 🇨🇭 Country Code - Ch
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1E8 U+1F1ED- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:switzerland:GitHub:flag-ch:Slack:flag_ch:Discord:ch: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: Switzerland or 🧑🦰 Person: Red Hair?