What 🇬🇶 means
No. It identifies Equatorial Guinea. Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea all share the word Guinea, so match the full country name before you send a Guinea flag.
As of 2025, platforms without flag support may show GQ rather than flag artwork. That fallback is a display limit, not a different country.
Neutral and geographic: it marks country, nationality, travel, or team support.
Do not use it when you mean Guinea or Guinea-Bissau.
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
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 “flag: Equatorial Guinea”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “flag”.
Chat apps
:flag-gq:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🇬🇶Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
🇬🇶
HTML hex
🇬🇶
CSS content
content: "\1F1EC\1F1F6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%B6
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.