What 🎌 means
Some older artwork used different flags.
Artwork documented by 2026 included older Samsung designs with South Korean flags and Huawei designs with plain white flags. The sender may still mean the Japanese pair; read the message before assuming a different country.
Festive and ceremonial, with a Japanese connection.
Two flags do not necessarily mean two countries.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsMessage about a Japanese holiday
Celebrating a Japanese occasion.
Message about a race or competition
Possibly event fanfare rather than a reference to Japan.
Don't confuse it with
1Worth knowing
- 🎌 came to Unicode from Japanese mobile-phone emoji sets, and the proposal that brought it over labelled it for Japanese national holidays.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🎌 look different on other phones?
Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point. The character you send is identical; Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp each render it in their own style.
How to type 🎌
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “crossed flags”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “crossed flags”.
Chat apps
:crossed_flags:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🎌Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🎌
HTML hex
🎌
CSS content
content: "\1F38C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%8E%8C
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.