What ๐จ๐ฐ means
The flag of the Cook Islands: a Blue Ensign with a ring of fifteen white stars, one for each island. It stands for the self-governing Pacific nation in free association with New Zealand.
Cook Islanders in Rarotonga and New Zealand use ๐จ๐ฐ for culture and dance. Travelers post it with turquoise lagoon photos from Aitutaki and ๐บ.
A large Cook Islands community lives in New Zealand, so much of the flag's use comes from the diaspora there.
Facts
Flag: Cook Islands ๐จ๐ฐ 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 :cook_islands: or :flag_cook_islands:. People also look for it with words like โCKโ 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.
flags ยท Emoji 2.0