What ๐ฉ๐ช means
Germany's flag: black, red and gold horizontal stripes. People send it for the country, its culture and the German language.
Football fans post ๐ฉ๐ช for the national team and the Bundesliga. Language learners, Oktoberfest visitors and car fans use it, often with ๐บ, ๐ฅจ or ๐.
Belgium ๐ง๐ช uses black, yellow and red in vertical stripes, so people sometimes mix the two flags up.
Facts
Flag: Germany ๐ฉ๐ช 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 :de: or :flag_germany:. People also look for it with words like โDEโ 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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