Tonga's constitution actually forbids changing its flag: a red field with a white canton holding a plain red cross, unaltered since 1875. The cross points to Christianity, practiced by nearly all of Tonga's population, with white read as purity and red as the blood of Christ. It flies from church steps to rugby matches, the two places Tongans gather most.
What 🇹🇴 means
A red flag with a white rectangular patch on the top-left corner, highlighted with a red '+' (plus) sign. The 🇹🇴 Flag: Tonga emoji refers to the Kingdom of Tonga; a country and an archipelago in the Polynesian region of Oceania.
This emoji is shown as 'TO' on some platforms.
The flag itself shows red with a white canton bearing a red couped cross — the constitution declares this flag may never be changed. 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 Tonga
- 🇹🇴 Flag of the Kingdom of Tonga
- 🇹🇴 Tongan Flag
- 🇹🇴 Country Code - TO
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1F9 U+1F1F4- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:tonga:GitHub:flag-to:Slack:flag_to:Discord:to: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: Tonga or 🫲 Leftwards Hand?