🇲🇼 Malawi Flag Emoji

The Malawi flag emoji 🇲🇼 shows the national flag. Click the copy button above to paste it into any message, post or document.

How the Malawi flag emoji looks on different platforms

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

What the Malawi flag emoji means

The Malawi flag emoji shows three horizontal stripes of black, red and green with a red rising sun on the black stripe. The sun stands for the dawn of freedom. People use it for Lake Malawi and national pride. Independence Day is 6 July (1964).

How to type the Malawi flag emoji

On iPhone, open the emoji keyboard and search for "malawi" or "flag", then tap the flag. On Android, use Gboard and search "malawi" or scroll to the Flags tab. On a Mac, press Ctrl+Cmd+Space and search the name. On Windows, press Win + . to open the picker; Windows does not draw country flags, so you will see the letters MW instead of a flag. That is normal and not a bug. Copy the emoji from this page into a chat or document, and it will show as a flag on any other device. The emoji is made of two regional indicator letters, M and W, which combine into a flag where the platform supports it.

Popular combinations

🇲🇼🌅 — the rising sun
🇲🇼🌊 — Lake Malawi
🇲🇼🐟 — freshwater cichlids
🇲🇼🌍 — the warm heart of Africa

Malawi flag emoji codes

Unicode	`U+1F1F2 U+1F1FC`
HTML entity	`🇲🇼`
CSS	`\1F1F2\1F1FC`
JavaScript / JSON	`\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfc`
Python	`\U0001F1F2\U0001F1FC`
Shortcode	`:flag_mw:`
Made of	regional indicator symbol letter M + regional indicator symbol letter W
Emoji version	Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 6.0 (2010)