Old Glory carries 50 stars for the states and 13 stripes for the original colonies, a count that hasn't changed since Hawaii joined the union in 1959 and the flag got its 50th star on July 4, 1960. On phones it's shorthand for USA pride, a Fourth of July post, or wherever an American traveler happens to be standing.
What 🇺🇸 means
A rectangular flag with thin horizontal red and white stripes covering the field of the flag while the top-left corner is fixated with a navy blue square lined with 50 tiny five-pointed stars.
The 🇺🇸 Flag: United States emoji represents the North American country of America, officially known as the United States of America or the USA. This emoji is shown as 'US' on platforms that don't support flag emojis.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇺🇸 American Flag
- 🇺🇸 Flag of the United States
- 🇺🇸 USA Flag
- 🇺🇸 Flag of the United States of America
- 🇺🇸 US Flag
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1FA U+1F1F8- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:us::flag-us:Slack:flag_us: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: United States or 🤹 Person Juggling?