What 🇹🇻 means
It means Tuvalu.
Send it for the country, a person or team from Tuvalu, a trip there, or news about Tuvalu. Copy it from the palette above when you need the exact flag. Do not use it as a generic beach or tropical-island decoration — readers with a Tuvalu connection will read it literally.
Neutral national label; playful only when your words make the joke obvious.
Check context: tuvalu flag vs television emoji is the costly mix-up.
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
1Why does tuvalu flag show as TV letters?
Yes. As of 2026, platforms without flag images show the underlying T+V letters as TV instead of a flag.
How to type 🇹🇻
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “flag: Tuvalu”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “flag”.
Chat apps
:flag-tv:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🇹🇻Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
🇹🇻
HTML hex
🇹🇻
CSS content
content: "\1F1F9\1F1FB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%87%B9%F0%9F%87%BB
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.