What ๐ง๐ง means
The flag of Barbados: blue, gold and blue vertical bands with a black trident head in the center. It stands for the Caribbean island nation, whose people call themselves Bajans.
Bajans use ๐ง๐ง for Crop Over festival, cricket and island pride. Fans of Rihanna, who was born and raised there, sometimes add it to posts about her.
The broken trident marks the island's break from colonial rule, since the shaft of the old colonial trident is missing.
Facts
Flag: Barbados ๐ง๐ง 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 :barbados: or :flag_barbados:. People also look for it with words like โBBโ 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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