What 🇦🇺 means
It flags Australia as the subject.
Send it for home, travel, an Aussie team or anything Oz — it labels place and affiliation rather than a feeling. It does not prove the sender holds citizenship.
Why does the Australia flag show as AU?
Some systems show AU when flags are unsupported.
The emoji joins two regional-indicator letters, so as of 2026 a device without color-flag support can expose them as AU instead of the flag.
Straightforward and patriotic; reads as place pride, not an insult.
Don't confuse it with
4Worth knowing
- The characters behind 🇦🇺 existed in Unicode 5 years before anyone was allowed to draw them in colour: Unicode 6.0 in 2010, emoji presentation in 2015.
- 🇦🇺 is not one character. It is 2 of them glued together, which is why deleting it sometimes takes two presses of backspace and why it breaks character counters.
Questions people ask
1Can I send Aussie flag if I'm not Australian?
Yes. It marks Australia as the topic — a trip, a team, a friend there. Add words so readers know whether you mean going, watching, or belonging.
How to type 🇦🇺
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “flag: Australia”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “flag”.
Chat apps
:flag-au:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🇦🇺Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
🇦🇺
HTML hex
🇦🇺
CSS content
content: "\1F1E6\1F1FA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%87%A6%F0%9F%87%BA
1
On screen
2
Code points
4
JS .length
8
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.