What ๐จ๐ณ means
China's national flag: a red field with one large and four small yellow stars. People send it for the People's Republic, its people and Chinese culture.
People use ๐จ๐ณ for travel, Chinese-language study, food, and sports such as table tennis. It appears around National Day on 1 October and in news posts.
Many Chinese speakers outside mainland China use other flags or none, since the flag stands for the state rather than the language or the culture as a whole.
Facts
Flag: China ๐จ๐ณ is an emoji in the flags category, under country flag. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :cn: or :flag_china:. People also look for it with words like โCNโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
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