What 🇸🇳 means
It points to Senegal, its people, or its national team. Send it for a Dakar trip, a Senegalese shout-out, or full-volume Lions support on match day.
As of 2026, an unsupported system may show SN instead of a flag. That is the same regional-indicator sequence without flag artwork.
Warm and identity-forward; on match days, openly celebratory.
Do not assume the sender lives in Senegal.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsAfter a person's name in a message
Senegalese nationality, heritage, or personal connection.
Beside a football result
Support for Senegal's national team or its players.
In a diaspora family chat
A link to Senegal across countries, languages, and generations.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
2Backing Senegal's national team on match day.
Flying to, or just back from, Senegal.
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 🇸🇳 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: Senegal”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “flag”.
Chat apps
:flag-sn:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🇸🇳Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
🇸🇳
HTML hex
🇸🇳
CSS content
content: "\1F1F8\1F1F3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%87%B8%F0%9F%87%B3
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.