What ๐ฆ๐บ means
Australia's flag puts the Union Jack in the corner, a large seven-pointed star below it, and the stars of the Southern Cross on blue. Aussies send it as a badge of home and pride.
Expect it in cricket and rugby banter, travel posts with ๐ฆ and ๐จ, and backpackers announcing a working holiday. Aussies add it to say where they are from in global comment threads.
It looks very like ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand, whose stars are red. Australia Day on 26 January is also marked by many Indigenous Australians as a day of mourning.
Facts
Flag: Australia ๐ฆ๐บ 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 :australia: or :flag_australia:. People also look for it with words like โAUโ 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