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🇼🇸 Samoa Flag
The Samoa emoji, ready to copy and paste.
- Emoji
- 🇼🇸
- Unicode
- U+1F1FC U+1F1F8
- Shortcode
- :samoa:
- HTML code
- 🇼🇸
- Approved in
- Emoji 2.0 (2015)
- Category
- Flags
What does the 🇼🇸 emoji mean?
The 🇼🇸 emoji is the flag of Samoa. People use it to represent Samoa: cheering for the national team, talking about travel, showing pride in their roots or listing the country in an Instagram, TikTok or WhatsApp profile.
On Windows, country flags are not drawn: they show up as the two letters WS. On iPhone, Android, Mac and on this page they appear as a flag.
Keywords: WS, flag.
How 🇼🇸 looks on each platform
Every company draws its own version of the same emoji.
Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp designs are copyrighted by each company, so we don't publish them as images. Open this page on an iPhone and the “Your device” box shows Apple's version; on a Samsung Galaxy, Samsung's.
How to type 🇼🇸 on your keyboard
| iPhone | Open the keyboard, tap the emoji button 😀 and type “samoa” in “Search Emoji”. |
|---|---|
| Android | On Gboard or the Samsung keyboard, tap the emoji icon and search “samoa”. |
| Windows | Press Windows + . (period) and type “samoa”. |
| Mac | Press Control + Command + Space and search “samoa”. |
| Discord, Slack, GitHub | Type :samoa: |
🇼🇸 emoji codes
| Official Unicode name | flag: Samoa |
|---|---|
| Code points | U+1F1FC U+1F1F8 |
| HTML decimal | 🇼🇸 |
| HTML hex | 🇼🇸 |
| CSS | \1F1FC \1F1F8 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F1FC}\u{1F1F8} |
| Shortcode | :samoa: |
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What does the 🇼🇸 emoji mean?
The 🇼🇸 emoji is the flag of Samoa. People use it to represent Samoa: cheering for the national team, talking about travel, showing pride in their roots or listing the country in an Instagram, TikTok or WhatsApp profile.
How do I copy and paste the samoa flag emoji?
Tap Copy emoji on this page and paste it anywhere: WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, an email or a document. You can also find it on your phone's emoji keyboard by searching “samoa”.
When was the 🇼🇸 emoji released?
It was approved in Emoji 2.0, in 2015. Today it works on practically every phone and computer.
Why does the Samoa flag show as the letters WS?
Windows does not draw country flags: it shows the two-letter country code instead. On iPhone, Android, Mac and on this page you will see the flag.