What 🇧🇴 means
It tags Bolivia or Bolivian identity. Drop the Bolivian tricolor in a bio, caption, or group chat to claim roots, cheer La Verde, or pin a plan to La Paz.
Pair it with a city, date, or score and it narrows the topic: Bolivia is the where. On its own after «soy de…», it reads as pride, not decoration.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readings🇧🇴 after «soy de Santa Cruz»
Sender is claiming Bolivian roots.
🇧🇴 beside a match score
Bolivia's team is the one you mean.
Don't confuse it with
2Worth 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
1Why does 🇧🇴 show as BO on Windows?
Windows shows it as letters. As checked 2026-09-02, Windows has no color-flag art, so you get BO instead.
How to type 🇧🇴
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “flag: Bolivia”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “flag”.
Chat apps
:flag-bo:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🇧🇴Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
🇧🇴
HTML hex
🇧🇴
CSS content
content: "\1F1E7\1F1F4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%87%A7%F0%9F%87%B4
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.