Peru flag is the Peruvian flag emoji, a P and an E that a phone joins into one picture. The flag is three upright bands, red, white and red. A Spanish nickname is el pendón bicolor, the two-colour banner.
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Red at both edges
The bands stand side by side, so a row of emoji gives them in their true order: Red, white, red in hearts reads as the flag does. The flag is 2 units high to 3 wide, and Peru flag block, small is exactly that, in six squares.
Peru or Canada
Canada flag is made the same way, red at both edges and white between, but its white band is twice the width of each red one and holds a red maple leaf. Austria flag is Peru's bands lying down. Their letters differ too: PE, CA and AT.
Fiestas Patrias is for 28 and 29 July, and the flag hangs on homes all that month. Flag Day in June is 7 June.
Questions and answers
What animal is on the Peru flag?
A vicuña, Peru's national animal. It stands on the coat of arms, which the state flag carries on its white band; the flag citizens fly is plain. No emoji is named vicuña, but CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files the word under Llama.
Is there an emoticon of the Peru flag?
Not a standard one. An emoticon is typed with keyboard characters, and Peru flag in keyboard characters is ours: a frame with five columns of R at each edge and a gap between for the white band.
Why does the Peru flag emoji copy and paste as PE?
A flag emoji has no picture inside it. What you copy is P followed by E. A system with flag pictures swaps the pair for the flag; one without leaves the two letters, which Unicode's emoji standard permits.
What do the colours of the Peru flag mean?
Wikipedia gives red for the blood shed for independence and white for purity and peace, and also calls the symbolism uncertain. Another account it records links the colours to parihuanas, red and white flamingos. Flamingo is here for that story.
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Flag and letters 4
🇵 🇪P and E with a space between them, so they stay two letters
🇵🇪Peru flagU+1F1F5 U+1F1EA. The Peruvian flag emoji: regional indicator P, then regional indicator E, shown as one flag. Unicode names it flag: Peru, and CLDR gives it a single search word, flag. Emoji 2.0.
🇪Regional indicator EU+1F1EA Regional indicator symbol letter E. The second half. After a P, with nothing between, it makes the Peru flag.
🇵Regional indicator PU+1F1F5 Regional indicator symbol letter P. The first half of the flag. Fourteen flags start with this letter, from Panama (PA) to Paraguay (PY), and the second letter picks the country.
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🇵🇪 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗨 🇵🇪PERU in bold sans-serif capitals
🇵🇪 +51Flag and the calling code
Lima 🇵🇪The capital, then the flag
PEPlain PE: what a box with no flag pictures shows for the emoji
🇵🇪 PEFlag and the two-letter country code
PerúPeru in Spanish. The ú is one character, U+00FA.
🇵🇪 Perú 🇵🇪The Spanish name between two flags
Piruw Ripuwlika 🇵🇪The Republic of Peru in Quechua, a co-official language
S/The sol sign: a capital S and a slash. Unicode has no single character for it.
🇵🇪 S/Flag and the sol sign. Sol also means sun in Spanish.
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Red, white, red 4
🟥⬜🟥⬜🟥⬜🟥⬜🟥Red and white ribbonNine squares, red and white by turns, as a divider line.
🔴⚪🔴Red, white, red in circlesRed circle, then white circle, then red circle. Both circles are from Emoji 0.6, the oldest set.
❤️🤍❤️Red, white, red in heartsRed heart, then white heart, then red heart. The three bands from left to right, as they stand on the flag. White heart is from Emoji 12.0.
🟥⬜🟥Red, white, red in squaresRed square, then white large square, then red square. Red square is from Emoji 12.0.
Look-alike flags 4
🇦🇹Austria flagU+1F1E6 U+1F1F9. Red, white and red again, but the bands are horizontal: red on top and at the bottom. Its letters are A and T. Emoji 2.0.
🇨🇦Canada flagU+1F1E8 U+1F1E6. A vertical triband of red and white like Peru, but the white band is double width and holds one red maple leaf, and the flag is 1 high to 2 wide. Its letters are C and A. Emoji 2.0.
🍁Maple leafU+1F341. What tells Canada from Peru: one red maple leaf, centred on the white band. Emoji 0.6.
🇵🇪 PE, 🇨🇦 CA, 🇦🇹 ATThe three red and white tribands with their letters, to tell them apart
Vicuña and flamingo 4
🦙🌳🪙Arms in emojiLlama, then deciduous tree, then coin. A stand-in for the coat of arms on the state flag, which shows a vicuña, a cinchona tree and a cornucopia spilling coins. No emoji is a vicuña or a cinchona.
🦩FlamingoU+1F9A9. One account Wikipedia records says the red and white came from parihuanas, red and white flamingos. It calls the symbolism of the colours uncertain. Emoji 12.0.
🦙LlamaU+1F999. The emoji CLDR files the word vicuña under, with alpaca and guanaco. The vicuña is the national animal of Peru and a relative of the llama. Emoji 11.0.
🦙🇵🇪National animalLlama, then flag: Peru. The vicuña, by way of the one emoji filed under its name, beside the flag.
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🇵🇪🎉Fiestas PatriasFlag: Peru, then party popper. 28 and 29 July, the national holidays. 28 July is for the independence of 1821.
🇵🇪🗓️Flag Day in JuneFlag: Peru, then spiral calendar. 7 June, Flag Day in Peru.
🏠🇵🇪Flags out in JulyHouse, then flag: Peru. During the whole month of July homes, offices and schools display the flag.
✈️🇵🇪Flight to LimaAirplane, then flag: Peru. For the travel post.
🇵🇪❤️Heart for PeruFlag: Peru, then red heart.
🥔🇵🇪Home of the potatoPotato, then flag: Peru. The potato was first domesticated in southern Peru and northwestern Bolivia.
⛵🌊🇵🇪Lake TiticacaSailboat, then water wave, then flag: Peru. A large lake in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru, often called the highest navigable lake in the world.
🇵🇪🏙️Lima skylineFlag: Peru, then cityscape. Lima is the capital and the largest city.
⛰️🇵🇪Machu PicchuMountain, then flag: Peru. A 15th-century Inca citadel on a mountain ridge in southern Peru, named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007.
📍🇵🇪Pinned in PeruRound pushpin, then flag: Peru. For the location line of a bio.
Flag blocks 5
Peru flag block in circlesFour rows of six circles, two columns to a band.
Peru flag block, largeSix rows of nine squares, three columns to a band, 2 high to 3 wide. In a box narrower than nine emoji the rows wrap.
Peru flag block, smallTwo rows of three squares: the flag at its smallest, in its own shape of 2 high to 3 wide. It pastes as two lines.
Peru flag in keyboard charactersFive columns of R at each edge for red, and a gap between them for white. Keyboard characters only.
State flag blockA llama on the white band, where the state flag carries the coat of arms. The flag citizens fly has nothing there.