What ๐ฉ๐ฟ means
The flag of Algeria: green and white halves with a red crescent and star in the middle. It stands for the North African country and Algerians abroad.
Football fans fill comments with ๐ฉ๐ฟ when the national team plays. Algerians in France and elsewhere use it for heritage, raรฏ music and celebrations, often with ๐๐ค.
Green, white and red with a crescent also appear in other flags, but only Algeria splits the field into two vertical halves.
Facts
Flag: Algeria ๐ฉ๐ฟ 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 :algeria: or :flag_algeria:. People also look for it with words like โDZโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
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