The regional flag of Hong Kong: a white five-petal bauhinia flower on red. It stands for Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China.
People post ๐ญ๐ฐ for travel, dim sum ๐ฅ, the harbor skyline, Cantonese and Hong Kong films. Hong Kongers abroad use it for heritage.
Hong Kong has its own flag, currency and passport under the "one country, two systems" framework, so ๐ญ๐ฐ is used apart from ๐จ๐ณ.
Facts
Flag: Hong Kong SAR China ๐ญ๐ฐ 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 :hong_kong: or :flag_hong_kong_sar_china:. People also look for it with words like โHKโ 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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