🇭🇲 Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands Emoji Meaning

01 — Meaning

What does the 🇭🇲 Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands emoji mean?

In plain english

🇭🇲 is the flag for Heard and McDonald Islands, an uninhabited Australian territory near Antarctica. It’s classic “obscure flag” material. 🇭🇲 sits in flag emojis, where it is listed next to everything used the same way.

Where it comes from

🇭🇲 represents Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, a frozen, volcanic Australian territory near Antarctica, with no permanent residents — just penguins, seals, and rare researcher visits. It mostly lives inside flag quizzes and “weirdest places on Earth” lists online.

Also known as

People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.

flag emoji

02 — Platforms

Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands 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.

AppleiPhone, iPad, macOS

GoogleAndroid, Gmail, Chrome

Twitter / XX, Discord, Twemoji apps

FacebookFacebook, Messenger

OpenMojiOpen-source, design systems

See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.

03 — Copy & codes

Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands emoji copy and paste

Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :flag-hm:.

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In your code

Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F1ED.

04 — How to type

How to type the 🇭🇲 Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands emoji

Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.

iPhone & iPad

Tap the smiley or globe key at the bottom-left of the keyboard, then search “flag: heard island & mcdonald islands”. No emoji key? Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard → Emoji.

Android

On Gboard tap the smiley key, or long-press the Enter or comma key. On Samsung Keyboard the emoji button sits behind the gear icon.

Windows & Mac

Windows: press Win + . for the emoji panel. Mac: Control + Command + Space. Then type “flag: heard island & mcdonald islands”.

Slack & Discord

Type the shortcode :flag-hm: and it converts to 🇭🇲 as you send. The full set is on the Discord emoji page.

Websites & code

In HTML use 🇭🇲, in CSS \1F1ED\1F1F2, in JavaScript \u{1F1ED}\u{1F1F2}.

No picker to hand? The online emoji keyboard works in any browser, and every character on the site is listed on emoji copy and paste.

05 — Download

Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands 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 PNG · 160px

Google PNG · 160px

Twitter / X SVG vector

Facebook PNG · 64px

OpenMoji SVG vector

06 — Combinations

Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands emoji combinations

Ready-made combos built around flag: heard island & mcdonald islands for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.

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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.

From a girl

A girl sending 🇭🇲 is almost certainly having fun with a flag-guessing game or sharing a random geography fact, not talking about an actual visit anywhere. It’s a novelty pick, chosen because barely anyone recognizes it.

From a guy

A guy sending 🇭🇲 is usually doing the same — flexing obscure knowledge or trying to stump a friend in a flag quiz. It sometimes ties into a genuine interest in remote places or Antarctic-adjacent geography.

How to reply

If someone sends you 🇭🇲, you could reply with: “that’s basically Antarctica,” “okay nerd 😂,” or “I give up, what is it.”

Used in a sentence

08 — Apps

What 🇭🇲 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord

One code point, several readings — where the flag: heard island & mcdonald islands lands changes how it is taken.

TikTok & Instagram

🇭🇲 is the flag for Heard and McDonald Islands, an uninhabited Australian territory near Antarctica. It’s classic “obscure flag” material. In comments and captions it is read the same way — the tone comes from what it sits next to.

WhatsApp draws 🇭🇲 with Apple-style artwork on every phone, so it looks identical for both sides. A message with only 🇭🇲 in it is shown enlarged.

Discord & Slack

Both accept the shortcode :flag-hm:. Discord renders Twemoji, so 🇭🇲 looks different there than on your phone.

Outlook & email

Outlook has no emoji picker on desktop — press Win + . or Control + Command + Space inside the message body, or paste 🇭🇲 from the copy button above.

09 — Related

Emojis similar to the Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands emoji

Same family (country-flag) — often confused with flag: heard island & mcdonald islands or used alongside it.

Flags →

Flag: Bermuda

Flag: Bhutan

Flag: Bolivia

Flag: Bosnia & Herzegovina

Flag: Botswana

Flag: Brazil

Flag: British Indian Ocean Territory

Flag: British Virgin Islands

Flag: Brunei

Flag: Bulgaria

Flag: Burkina Faso

Flag: Burundi

Collections 🇭🇲 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:

flag emojis

10 — Difference

🇭🇲 vs 🇧🇲 — what is the difference?

Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.

🇭🇲 Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands

Unicode name: Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands

Code: U+1F1ED U+1F1F2 · added 2015

Shortcode: :flag-hm:

🇭🇲 is the flag for Heard and McDonald Islands, an uninhabited Australian territory near Antarctica.

🇧🇲 Flag: Bermuda

Unicode name: Flag: Bermuda

Code: U+1F1E7 U+1F1F2 · added 2015

Shortcode: :flag-bm:

Generally, it just means Bermuda.

Open 🇧🇲 Flag: Bermuda →

11 — History

Where the 🇭🇲 Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands emoji came from

It arrived with the 2.0 release of the standard, which dates the flag: heard island & mcdonald islands to 2015.

Twitter / XTwemoji

Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands emoji, Twitter / X, Twemoji 16 — Twemoji 16

Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands emoji, Twitter / X, Twemoji 17 — Twemoji 17

Same character every time — U+1F1ED U+1F1F2 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.

2015

Added to the standard

Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands was approved as U+1F1ED U+1F1F2 and shipped in Emoji 2.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.

Today

Drawn 5 different ways

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

Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands emoji — questions people actually ask

What does the 🇭🇲 Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands emoji mean?

🇭🇲 is the flag for Heard and McDonald Islands, an uninhabited Australian territory near Antarctica. It’s classic “obscure flag” material.

What does 🇭🇲 mean from a girl?

A girl sending 🇭🇲 is almost certainly having fun with a flag-guessing game or sharing a random geography fact, not talking about an actual visit anywhere. It’s a novelty pick, chosen because barely anyone recognizes it.

What does 🇭🇲 mean from a guy?

A guy sending 🇭🇲 is usually doing the same — flexing obscure knowledge or trying to stump a friend in a flag quiz. It sometimes ties into a genuine interest in remote places or Antarctic-adjacent geography.

How do you reply to the 🇭🇲 emoji?

If someone sends you 🇭🇲, you could reply with: “that’s basically Antarctica,” “okay nerd 😂,” or “I give up, what is it.”

What else is the 🇭🇲 emoji called?

Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands is the official Unicode name, but people search for it as “flag emoji” and more. They all refer to the same character, U+1F1ED U+1F1F2.

What is the Unicode code for 🇭🇲?

The Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands emoji is U+1F1ED U+1F1F2, added in Emoji 2.0 (2015). In HTML you can write it as 🇭🇲, and in CSS as \1F1ED\1F1F2.

How do I copy and paste the 🇭🇲 emoji?

Tap the copy button at the top of this page — 🇭🇲 goes straight to your clipboard and pastes into Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, Discord or any text field. You can also copy its shortcode :flag-hm: for Slack and Discord.

Does 🇭🇲 look the same on every phone?

No. Flag: Heard Island & McDonald Islands is drawn separately by each vendor — Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook and OpenMoji all ship their own artwork for U+1F1ED. The character you send is identical; only the picture changes.