What ๐ง๐น means
A white dragon across a field split diagonally into yellow and orange marks Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom between India and China.
Travelers post ๐ง๐น with photos of mountain monasteries such as Tiger's Nest, often with ๐๏ธ. Posts about Bhutan's idea of Gross National Happiness use it too.
The dragon is the Druk, the thunder dragon that gives the country its own name, Druk Yul.
Facts
Flag: Bhutan ๐ง๐น 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 :bhutan: or :flag_bhutan:. People also look for it with words like โBTโ 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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