What 🇵🇫 means
Tahiti and its islands, not France itself. French Polynesia is a French overseas territory in the South Pacific, and this flag marks its own identity. The emblem shows a Polynesian canoe carrying five figures, linked to the territory's five island groups, above a sun and the sea.
Geographic and civic; use it when French Polynesia is the point.
Don't send 🇫🇷 when you mean Tahiti.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
2Heading to Tahiti or French Polynesia.
Island time in French Polynesia.
Worth 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 do I see PF instead of a flag?
Your app lacks the artwork. The emoji is two letter codes, P and F, that software combines into a flag; as of 2026, systems without flag support show the letters PF or a missing-flag mark.
How to type 🇵🇫
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “flag: French Polynesia”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “flag”.
Chat apps
:flag-pf:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🇵🇫Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
🇵🇫
HTML hex
🇵🇫
CSS content
content: "\1F1F5\1F1EB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%87%B5%F0%9F%87%AB
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.