What ๐ฉ๐ฒ means
Dominica, a mountainous Caribbean island nation, flies green with a cross of yellow, black and white stripes, and a red disc holding a purple Sisserou parrot ringed by green stars.
Dominicans use ๐ฉ๐ฒ for Independence Day and the World Creole Music Festival. Hikers post it from the "Nature Isle", with waterfalls and the Boiling Lake.
It is often confused with ๐ฉ๐ด the Dominican Republic, a different country. People from Dominica pronounce its name "dom-in-EE-ka".
Facts
Flag: Dominica ๐ฉ๐ฒ 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 :dominica: or :flag_dominica:. People also look for it with words like โDMโ 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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