What 🇧🇭 means
🇧🇭 indicates pride, travel, news, or conversation relating directly to Bahrain.
When placed in bios or shared in chat messages, the flag shows a personal, cultural, or geographic link to Bahrain. In mid-December, people frequently share it during the national holiday period commemorating Bahrain National Day on December 16 and the King's accession anniversary on December 17.
The flag also appears in international sporting contexts, such as during the annual Bahrain Grand Prix held at Sakhir.
Why does 🇧🇭 appear as the letters BH?
Some computer systems render country flags as two-letter regional indicator codes.
Under the hood, this flag emoji is built from two Unicode regional indicator letters: and . While mobile operating systems like iOS and Android combine them into a single colored flag, desktop systems like Microsoft Windows lack color flag graphics and display them as two separate letters resembling «BH» unless an app provides its own emoji font.
A national symbol suitable for personal, travel, news, or formal civic contexts.
Do not confuse it with Qatar's flag, which uses maroon and nine zigzag points.
🇧🇭 on the world map
Part of collections
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsShows a personal, family, or professional tie to Bahrain.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Alphabet
Combination ideas
3Worth knowing
- The flag's five white triangular points officially symbolize the five pillars of Islam, established in its current design in 2002.
Questions people ask
2Why does the flag look like BH on my computer?
Windows does not include color artwork for country flag emojis, displaying the regional indicator letters BH instead.
When is Bahrain's National Day celebrated?
December 16 marks Bahrain National Day, followed by Accession Day on December 17, forming a major two-day national celebration.
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How to type or find 🇧🇭
- Also called
- Bahraini flag · flag: Bahrain · BH flag
- Search it as
- Bahrain · Bahraini · BH · Manama · Gulf · red and white flag · serrated flag
- Type it as
- :flag-bh:
- Around since
- 2015 · Emoji 2.0
- Shows up on
- Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux
:flag-bh:Common shortcode in Slack, GitHub, Discord, Mattermost and other chat apps; a few apps use a different name.🇧🇭Codes and encoding2 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.