What ๐ฆ๐ธ means
The flag of American Samoa, a US territory in the South Pacific. A white triangle edged in red points in from the fly on a blue field, with a bald eagle holding a war club and a fly whisk.
Samoans in the territory and in Hawaii and California use ๐ฆ๐ธ for island pride, family and church events. Fans post it for American football players with Samoan roots.
It is easy to mix up with ๐ผ๐ธ Samoa, the independent country next door, which has a red flag with a blue corner.
Facts
Flag: American Samoa ๐ฆ๐ธ 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 :american_samoa: or :flag_american_samoa:. People also look for it with words like โASโ 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.
flags ยท Emoji 2.0