Flags · Emoji 2.0
Flag: Hong Kong SAR China Emoji
Generally, the 🇭🇰 emoji just represents Hong Kong. People often use it to show they’re thinking about Hong Kong or to acknowledge something related to the territory.
The 🇭🇰 emoji is the flag of Hong Kong.
- Unicode
- U+1F1ED U+1F1F0
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :flag-
hk: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🇭🇰 Flag: Hong Kong SAR China emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Flag: Hong Kong SAR China emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F1ED. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Flag: Hong Kong SAR China emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :flag-hk:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F1ED.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🇭🇰 Flag: Hong Kong SAR China emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F1ED when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Flag: Hong Kong SAR China emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 5. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Flag: Hong Kong SAR China emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around flag: hong kong sar china for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🇭🇰 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 🇭🇰 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the flag: hong kong sar china lands changes how it is taken.
09 — Related
Emojis similar to the Flag: Hong Kong SAR China emoji
Same family (country-flag) — often confused with flag: hong kong sar china or used alongside it.
Flags →
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Flag: Brunei
Flag: Bulgaria
Flag: Burkina Faso
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Collections 🇭🇰 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
10 — Difference
🇭🇰 vs 🇧🇲 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Flag: Hong Kong SAR China
Code: U+1F1ED U+1F1F0 · added 2015
Shortcode: :flag-hk:
Generally, the 🇭🇰 emoji just represents Hong Kong.
Unicode name: Flag: Bermuda
Code: U+1F1E7 U+1F1F2 · added 2015
Shortcode: :flag-bm:
Generally, it just means Bermuda.
11 — History
Where the 🇭🇰 Flag: Hong Kong SAR China emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 2.0, the flag: hong kong sar china has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F1ED U+1F1F0 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Flag: Hong Kong SAR China was approved as U+1F1ED U+1F1F0 and shipped in Emoji 2.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🇭🇰 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ