What 🇨🇭 means
Your device has no flag art for this letter pair.
🇨🇭 is built from two regional-indicator letters, C and H — Switzerland's two-letter country code. Apps without flag artwork for the pair show the letters or two boxes instead.
Neutral country tag; the message around it supplies the pride, cheer or itinerary.
Don't use it as a medical or humanitarian emblem.
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
1Is the Swiss flag emoji the Red Cross?
No. The Red Cross emblem is a red cross on white marking protected humanitarian and medical services; 🇨🇭 is a white cross on red and means Switzerland.
How to type 🇨🇭
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “flag: Switzerland”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “flag”.
Chat apps
:flag-ch:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🇨🇭Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
🇨🇭
HTML hex
🇨🇭
CSS content
content: "\1F1E8\1F1ED";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%87%A8%F0%9F%87%AD
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.