🇨🇽 Christmas Island Flag Emoji

The Christmas Island flag emoji 🇨🇽 is the two-letter flag sequence for CX. Tap the copy button to paste it anywhere.

How the Christmas Island flag emoji looks on different platforms

Windows does not draw country flag emoji: it shows the two letters CX instead. Emoji images: Twemoji (CC BY 4.0), Noto Emoji (Apache 2.0), OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What the Christmas Island flag emoji means

Christmas Island is an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. Its flag, adopted in 2002, is split diagonally into blue and green, with the Southern Cross, a golden bosun bird and a yellow disc showing the island's outline. The island is famous for its annual red crab migration, usually starting around October or November, and that is the most common reason to post the emoji. The name comes from the island being sighted on Christmas Day 1643.

About 1,800 people live there, and the emoji is rarely used. Searches tend to come from people expecting a Christmas symbol, which this is not.

How to type the Christmas Island flag emoji

On iPhone and Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for "Christmas Island" or "flag". On a Mac, press Ctrl+Cmd+Space and search the same way. On Windows, press Win + . to open the emoji panel. Note that Windows shows the two letters CX instead of a flag, because it does not include flag artwork. The emoji is made of two regional indicator symbols, C and X, which platforms combine into one flag.

Popular combinations

🇨🇽🦀 for the red crab migration
🇨🇽🎄 for a pun on the island's name
🇨🇽🤿 for diving and snorkelling
🇨🇽🇦🇺 for the Australian territory

Christmas Island flag emoji codes

Unicode	`U+1F1E8 U+1F1FD`
HTML entity	`🇨🇽`
CSS	`\1F1E8\1F1FD`
JavaScript / JSON	`\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfd`
Python	`\U0001F1E8\U0001F1FD`
Shortcode	`:flag_cx:`
Made of	regional indicator symbol letter C + regional indicator symbol letter X
Emoji version	Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 6.0 (2010)