What 🇲🇫 means
It means French Saint Martin, not Dutch Sint Maarten. One island, two countries: Saint-Martin is the French collectivity in the north, Sint Maarten the Dutch side in the south. Send 🇲🇫 for French-side arrivals, beaches, businesses, and roots; anyone around SXM reads the side you picked.
Specific and geographic: it says French-side Saint Martin, not just generic Caribbean.
Do not use it for the Dutch side; send 🇸🇽 instead.
Drift: As of April 2026, Saint-Martin was developing an institutional flag of its own; this emoji still marks the French side.
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
1🇲🇫 vs 🇸🇽
🇲🇫 is French Saint Martin. 🇸🇽 is Dutch Sint Maarten. Pick the side you mean; they are not interchangeable.
How to type 🇲🇫
:flag-mf:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.🇲🇫Codes and encoding2 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.