What ๐ง๐พ means
The official flag of Belarus: red over green, with a red and white folk ornament along the pole side. It stands for the Eastern European country and the state.
It shows up in sports, travel and news posts about Belarus. Belarusians abroad pick it for heritage, though many of them choose another symbol instead.
Many Belarusians, especially the opposition and diaspora, use the historical white-red-white flag, which has no emoji; they often write it as ๐คโค๏ธ๐ค.
Facts
Flag: Belarus ๐ง๐พ 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 :belarus: or :flag_belarus:. People also look for it with words like โBYโ 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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