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There is no official Kurdistan flag emoji on any keyboard, even though the code for it already exists in Unicode. Until platforms switch it on, this is the set the community uses most: the red heart, the golden sun and the green heart. Tap once, paste it anywhere.
ยท No official emoji existsยท The community set works on every phoneยท Free PNG downloads belowยท The flag code exists in Unicode since 2022
The Kurdistan flag already exists as a valid Unicode code; no platform renders it yet. We campaign to change that, peacefully and with proof.
See the campaignTen ready-made combinations of the flag colours and the sun. Tap copy and paste them into WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram or any bio. On every platform they render in the exact colours of the flag: red, white, green and the golden sun.
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Red heart, the sun, green heart: the set the community uses most.
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Red, yellow and green hearts: the communityโs other go-to, the sun carried as a golden heart.
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Red, white, green and the sun: the whole flag in four emoji.
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The tricolour on its own, subtle and clear.
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Round and minimal, good for usernames.
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The flag as colour blocks, strong in comments.
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Roj alone: the shortest way to say it.
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The warmer face of the sun.
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A text symbol (U+2600) that works even without emoji support.
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A mirrored row for headers and bios.
Type your name or username and copy a ready-made version for your Instagram, TikTok or WhatsApp profile.
The flag as a multi-line emoji drawing, in three sizes. Copy a block and paste it into a chat; it keeps its shape on WhatsApp, Discord and Telegram.
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No app store offers a Kurdistan flag emoji, but every phone lets you save the community set as a shortcut. Set it up once and your keyboard suggests โค๏ธโ๏ธ๐ whenever you type "kurdflag".
Discord is the one place where you can add the Kurdistan flag as a true custom emoji. Download the PNG below and upload it once; everyone on your server can then use it like any other emoji.
Why is there no Kurdistan flag emoji?
The number of official Kurdistan flag emoji in Unicode is zero. Not on iPhone, not on Android, nowhere in the world.
Flag emoji are not drawn by Apple or Google one by one. They are generated automatically from country codes in the ISO 3166-1 standard: two letters in, one flag out. Kurdistan has no ISO country code, so no keyboard in the world can offer its flag (source: Unicode Technical Standard #51, consulted 2026).
It gets harder. In March 2022 the Unicode Consortium, the organisation behind all emoji, decided to stop accepting proposals for new flag emoji altogether. Its own reasons: flags are the least used emoji category, and every added flag emphasizes the exclusion of others (source: Unicode blog, The Past and Future of Flag Emoji, 2022). The current submission guidelines repeat it: no more flags.
One exception remains. When a new nation is recognized by the United Nations, it receives an ISO code and its flag emoji is added automatically (source: the same Unicode decision, 2022). Read that again: the day Kurdistan is recognized, the emoji follows by itself. The emoji is not a design question. It is a recognition question.
The door is even ajar already. In March 2022 the International Organization for Standardization officially assigned the Kurdistan Region its own region code, the same type of code the flags of Scotland and Wales are built on (source: Rudaw, ISO recognition of the Kurdistan Region, 2022). Weeks later Unicode closed the door on new flags. The technical route exists; what is missing is the decision.
That there is room within the rules is shown by the flags that already exist: ๐ฝ๐ฐ has a flag emoji through a temporary, user-assigned ISO code (source: Emojipedia, Flag: Kosovo, consulted 2026), and Scotland, Wales and England have their own subdivision flags ๐ด within the same standard (source: UTS #51). Where there is political will, a route exists.
The community has been asking for years, petition after petition, including one literally called #KurdistanEmoji (change.org, consulted 2026). Until Unicode moves, this page is the answer: the set โค๏ธโ๏ธ๐ works today, on every phone, in every app.
Want the full technical story, the device test and the code for developers? Read the Unicode proof page or follow the campaign.
Tap the Copy button next to any set on this page, then press and hold in the text field of your app and choose Paste. On a computer: select the emoji, press Ctrl+C or Cmd+C, then Ctrl+V or Cmd+V where you want it.
No. Unicode, the standard behind all emoji, contains no flag for Kurdistan, so no phone or app can offer one. The community uses the set โค๏ธโ๏ธ๐ instead: the red and green of the flag around the golden sun. You can copy it at the top of this page.
Copy the set โค๏ธโ๏ธ๐, then go to Settings, General, Keyboard, Text Replacement and save it with a shortcut such as "kurdflag". Your keyboard will suggest the flag whenever you type that word.
On Gboard, open Settings, Dictionary, Personal dictionary and add the set โค๏ธโ๏ธ๐ with the shortcut "kurdflag". Samsung keyboards call the same feature Text shortcuts. After that, typing kurdflag brings up the flag.
Flag emoji are generated from ISO 3166 country codes and Kurdistan does not have one. Since 2022 Unicode also accepts no new flag proposals at all; the only exception is a new nation recognized by the United Nations, whose flag is then added automatically (Unicode, 2022).
The route is written down: when Kurdistan is recognized and receives an ISO country code, the flag emoji is added to Unicode automatically (Unicode, 2022). Until that day the community set โค๏ธโ๏ธ๐ carries the flag onto every keyboard.
Red stands for the blood of the martyrs, white for peace, green for the land of Kurdistan. The golden sun, Roj, has 21 rays, a number tied to Newroz, the new year on 21 March (The Kurdish Project, consulted 2026).
Why it matters
The Kurdish nation counts itself at 70 million people across the four parts of Kurdistan and the diaspora; even the conservative estimate of the Institut kurde de Paris (2016) runs to 46 million. They text, post and love in every app on earth, and not one offers them their flag. Until the keyboard catches up, we carry it ourselves.
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