Meaning
India's flag is a horizontal tricolor of saffron, white, and green, with a blue Ashoka Chakra (a 24-spoke wheel) centered on the white stripe. The saffron represents courage and sacrifice, white symbolizes peace and truth, and green stands for fertility and growth. The Ashoka Chakra references ancient Indian Buddhist art and represents the wheel of law and progress.
This flag is widely used to express Indian national pride, celebrate Indian Independence Day (August 15), or show support for Indian sports teams in cricket, field hockey, and other major competitions. You'll see it posted during major events like the Cricket World Cup or the Olympics when Indian athletes are competing.
On social media, the flag often accompanies discussions of Indian culture, cuisine, festivals like Diwali, and Indian cinema. It's also used to indicate Indian location or context when discussing news, politics, or travel related to India.
The Indian flag has remained consistent in design since independence in 1947, making it one of the most recognizable symbols globally. India is the world's most populous country, so this flag appears frequently across international social media platforms. The flag was officially approved as part of Unicode Emoji 2.0 in 2015.
Common Uses
- • Celebrating Indian independence and national pride
- • Supporting Indian sports teams and athletes
- • Marking Indian festivals and cultural events
- • Indicating Indian location or context
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
The Ashoka Chakra on India's flag has 24 spokes, each representing an hour of the day, symbolizing that the nation is always on the move and never static.
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Platform Shortcodes
:india: :flag-in: :india: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 🇮🇳 |
| HTML (hex) | 🇮🇳 |
| CSS | \1F1EE\1F1F3 |
| JavaScript | \uD83C\uDDEE\uD83C\uDDF3 |
| Python | \U0001F1EE\U0001F1F3 |
| Java | \uD83C\uDDEE\uD83C\uDDF3 |
| Perl | \x{1F1EE}\x{1F1F3} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F1EE}\x{1F1F3} |
| Punycode | xn--2qcu-2qcz |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%87%AE%F0%9F%87%B3 |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAE 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB3 |
๐ฎ๐ณ in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | เฆชเฆคเฆพเฆเฆพ: เฆญเฆพเฆฐเฆค |
| Chinese (Simplified) | ๆ: ๅฐๅบฆ |
| Chinese (Traditional) | ๆๅญ๏ผๅฐๅบฆ |
| Danish | Indien |
| Dutch | vlag: India |
| English | flag: India |
| English (UK) | flag: India |
| Estonian | lipp: India |
| Finnish | lippu: Intia |
| French | drapeauโฏ: Inde |
| German | Flagge: Indien |
| Hindi | เคเคเคกเคพ: เคญเคพเคฐเคค |
| Hungarian | zรกszlรณ: India |
| Italian | bandiera: India |
| Japanese | ๆ: ใคใณใ |
| Korean | ๊น๋ฐ: ์ธ๋ |
| Lithuanian | vฤliava: Indija |
| Malay | bendera: India |
| Norwegian | flagg: India |
| Polish | flaga: Indie |
| Portuguese | bandeira: รndia |
| Russian | ัะปะฐะณ: ะะฝะดะธั |
| Spanish | Bandera: India |
| Spanish (Mexico) | Bandera: India |
| Swedish | flagga: Indien |
| Thai | เธเธ: เธญเธดเธเนเธเธตเธข |
| Ukrainian | ะฟัะฐะฟะพั: ะะฝะดัั |
| Vietnamese | cแป: แบคn ฤแป |