Guide
Pride emojis and flags
Every pride flag that exists as an emoji, what each one represents, and how to build the ones Unicode never made. Unicode has only three pride flags — everything else is put together from other characters.
Also searched as sexuality emoji, lgbt emoji, rainbow flag emoji.
Pride flags that exist as emojis
01 — Meaning
What each pride emoji means
🏳️🌈 Rainbow flag
The general pride flag, in Unicode since 2016. Built as white flag + zero-width joiner + rainbow, which is why it falls apart into 🏳️🌈 on systems that do not support it.
🏳️⚧️ Transgender flag
Added in 2020 — light blue, pink and white. Same ZWJ construction as the rainbow flag, so support is slightly worse on older devices.
Colour shorthand
Communities without a flag use colour hearts instead: 💜 for the general scene, 🖤🩶🤍💜 for asexual, 💗💛💙 for pansexual. Not official, but universally read.
FAQ
Pride Emojis — questions
How many pride flag emojis are there?
Two: the rainbow flag 🏳️🌈 and the transgender flag 🏳️⚧️. All other pride flags — bisexual, lesbian, asexual, pansexual — have been proposed but not approved, so people build them from coloured hearts instead.
Why does the rainbow flag sometimes show as two emojis?
It is a sequence — white flag joined to a rainbow with a zero-width joiner. Devices that do not support the combination show the two parts side by side instead of one flag.
Is there a lesbian or bisexual flag emoji?
Not in Unicode. The usual workarounds are colour hearts in the flag order, or the flag emoji plus the relevant hearts.