Chequered flag
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- Shortcode
:checkered_flag:- Shortcode
:chequered_flag:- Unicode
U+1F3C1- HTML
🏁- CSS
\1F3C1- JavaScript
"\u{1F3C1}"- URL
%F0%9F%8F%81
What ๐ means
The black and white flag waved at the end of a motor race. Beyond racing it means "finished": a project shipped, an exam done, a long week over.
Racing fans post ๐ for Formula 1, NASCAR and kart races, often with ๐๏ธ. At work it announces that a task crossed the line, and some people use it at the start of a challenge to mean "go".
Spelled "chequered" in British English and "checkered" in American English; both mean the same flag.
Facts
Chequered flag ๐ is an emoji in the flags category, under flag. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :checkered_flag: or :chequered_flag:. People also look for it with words like โcheckeredโ, โchequeredโ, โfinishโ, or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.