Black flag
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- Shortcode
:black_flag:- Unicode
U+1F3F4- HTML
🏴- CSS
\1F3F4- JavaScript
"\u{1F3F4}"- URL
%F0%9F%8F%B4
What ๐ด means
A plain black flag on a pole. It stands for mourning, protest, rebellion or anarchism, depending on who flies it, and sometimes simply for a dark or gothic mood.
People add it to posts of grief or defiance and to band or metal fan accounts. Pirate jokes use it too, though ๐ดโโ ๏ธ fits better.
It is also the base of the England, Scotland and Wales flags, which are built from ๐ด plus hidden tag characters. Where those flags are not supported, a plain black flag shows instead.
Facts
Black flag ๐ด is an emoji in the flags category, under flag. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. One other emoji uses it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :black_flag:. People also look for it with words like โblackโ, โflagโ, or โwavingโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)
- 2018New emoji built from it (Emoji 11.0)๐ดโโ ๏ธ
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2020
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.