What ๐ฆ๐ด means
The flag of Angola: red over black, with a yellow half gear wheel, machete and star in the center. It stands for the Portuguese-speaking country on Africa's southwest coast.
Angolans use ๐ฆ๐ด for national pride, basketball and football, and music such as kizomba, semba and kuduro, which all have Angolan roots. Dance accounts and the diaspora in Portugal post it often.
The half gear stands for industrial workers and the machete for farmers, a deliberate echo of the hammer and sickle.
Facts
Flag: Angola ๐ฆ๐ด 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 :angola: or :flag_angola:. People also look for it with words like โAOโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2018
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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