🇸🇻 El Salvador Flag Emoji

The El Salvador flag emoji 🇸🇻 is the standard flag for El Salvador, supported on iPhone, Android, Mac and the web. Tap the big emoji above to copy it, then paste it into any message or document.

How the El Salvador flag emoji looks on different platforms

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

What the El Salvador flag emoji means

The El Salvador flag emoji has a white stripe between two blue stripes, with the national coat of arms in the middle. It is used for national pride, football, and the Salvadoran diaspora in the United States. The main date is Independence Day on 15 September, shared with the rest of Central America. People also pair it with pupusas, the national dish.

How to type the El Salvador flag emoji

On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “El Salvador” or “flag”. On a Mac, press Ctrl+Cmd+Space and type the same word. On Windows 10 and 11, press Win + . and search there, but Windows shows the letters SV instead of a flag, because Microsoft's emoji font has no country flags. The emoji is built from two regional indicator letters, S and V, which supported platforms combine into one flag. If you see the letters on another device, the app or font does not support flags.

Popular combinations

🇸🇻⚽ — El Salvador's national team, La Selecta
🇸🇻🫓 — Pupusas, the national dish
🇸🇻🌋 — The country's many volcanoes
🇸🇻☕ — Salvadoran coffee

El Salvador flag emoji codes

Unicode	`U+1F1F8 U+1F1FB`
HTML entity	`🇸🇻`
CSS	`\1F1F8\1F1FB`
JavaScript / JSON	`\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfb`
Python	`\U0001F1F8\U0001F1FB`
Shortcode	`:flag_sv:`
Made of	regional indicator symbol letter S + regional indicator symbol letter V
Emoji version	Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 6.0 (2010)