⛳Flag in Hole Emoji
Generally, the ⛳ emoji simply means golf. It’s used to indicate a conversation or post about the sport.
The ⛳ emoji represents a golf flagstick, often found in a golf hole.
- Unicode
- U+26F3
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :golf:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ⛳ Flag in Hole emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as hole emoji.
Flag in Hole emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+26F3 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your flag in hole looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Flag in Hole 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 :golf:.
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+26F3.
How to type the ⛳ Flag in Hole emoji
No picker to hand? The flag in hole can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Flag in Hole emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Flag in Hole emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around flag in hole for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with ⛳, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What ⛳ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What ⛳ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+26F3, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
⛳ vs 📪 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Flag in Hole
Code: U+26F3 · added 2010
Shortcode: :golf:
Generally, the ⛳ emoji simply means golf.
Unicode name: Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag
Code: U+1F4EA · added 2010
Shortcode: :mailbox_closed:
Usually, it just means “no mail” or “nothing is happening.
Where the ⛳ Flag in Hole emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+26F3 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
⛳ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E654, KDDI au E599, SoftBank E014.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Flag in Hole was approved as U+26F3 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ⛳ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.