What ๐ต๐ซ means
French Polynesia's flag: red, white and red horizontal bands, with a Polynesian canoe on a gold sun over blue waves in the center. It stands for the French overseas collectivity in the South Pacific.
Mostly seen in honeymoon and luxury travel posts about Tahiti, Bora Bora and Moorea, with ๐๏ธ and ๐บ. Locals use it for Polynesian pride, outrigger canoe racing and Heiva dance festivals.
Facts
Flag: French Polynesia ๐ต๐ซ 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 :french_polynesia: or :flag_french_polynesia:. People also look for it with words like โPFโ 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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