Afghanistan's flag in its emoji form: black, red and green vertical stripes with the national emblem in the middle, a symbol of the country and the Afghan people.
Afghans at home and abroad use ๐ฆ๐ซ for heritage, cricket matches, Nowruz greetings and news from the country.
The Taliban government flies a different, white flag with the Islamic creed. So the tricolour emoji often reads as a symbol of the former republic, and choosing it can carry a political meaning.
Facts
Flag: Afghanistan ๐ฆ๐ซ is an emoji in the flags category, under country flag. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 2.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :afghanistan: or :flag_afghanistan:. People also look for it with words like โAFโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2018
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
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