What ๐จ๐ฉ means
The flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: sky blue with a red diagonal stripe edged in yellow and a yellow star in the corner. It stands for the large Central African country with Kinshasa as its capital.
Congolese people use ๐จ๐ฉ for the Leopards football team, rumba and ndombolo music, and heritage in Belgium, France and beyond. It also shows up in posts calling attention to conflict in the east of the country.
It is often mixed up with ๐จ๐ฌ Congo-Brazzaville, the neighbor across the river with a green, yellow and red flag.
Facts
Flag: Congo - Kinshasa ๐จ๐ฉ 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 :congo_kinshasa: or :flag_congo_kinshasa:. People also look for it with words like โCDโ 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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