What ๐ฌ๐ผ means
The flag of Guinea-Bissau: a red vertical band with a black star beside yellow over green. It stands for the small West African country with Bissau as its capital.
Bissau-Guineans use ๐ฌ๐ผ for pride, football and heritage, especially in Portugal. Travelers post it from the Bijagรณs islands.
It is often confused with ๐ฌ๐ณ Guinea next door. The country is Portuguese-speaking, unlike its French-speaking neighbor.
Facts
Flag: Guinea-Bissau ๐ฌ๐ผ 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 :guinea_bissau: or :flag_guinea_bissau:. People also look for it with words like โGWโ 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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