What 🇳🇷 means
It stands for Nauru, called Naoero in its own language.
In 2026, the government returned to Naoero for English-language use; “Nauru” was a spelling adapted for foreign pronunciation. The emoji's official name still says Nauru.
Chosen in a local competition, the flag first flew at independence on 31 January 1968. Its yellow stripe marks the Equator, the white star sits just south of it like the island itself, and the star's 12 points stand for the island's 12 tribes.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1Suggested travel tag for a trip to Nauru.
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 does 🇳🇷 show as NR?
Missing flag support. The emoji is built from two letter codes, N and R; as of 2026, some apps without the artwork show the letters NR or a blank flag.
How to type 🇳🇷
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “flag: Nauru”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “flag”.
Chat apps
:flag-nr:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🇳🇷Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
🇳🇷
HTML hex
🇳🇷
CSS content
content: "\1F1F3\1F1F7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%87%B3%F0%9F%87%B7
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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.