Blue over yellow is sky over wheat, a simple agricultural image tied to this land since at least the 13th century and made the official flag again in 1992, after independence. Expect it on posts about Ukrainian heritage, marking where a friend's family is from, or just flagging a Ukrainian account.
What 🇺🇦 means
A rectangular flag horizontally divided in the middle, with the upper half being blue and the lower half, yellow. The 🇺🇦 Flag: Ukraine represents the East European country, Ukraine. This emoji is shown as 'UA' on some platforms.
The flag itself shows two horizontal bands of blue over yellow — sky over wheat fields — a flag whose meaning the whole world now knows. 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 Ukraine
- 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Flag
- 🇺🇦 Country Code - UA
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1FA U+1F1E6- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:ukraine:GitHub:flag-ua:Slack:flag_ua:Discord:ua: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: Ukraine or 🏊♂️ Man Swimming?