What ๐ฎ๐ถ means
Iraq's flag: red, white and black stripes with the words "Allahu Akbar" in green script. Iraqis use it to mark where they are from.
Football fans post ๐ฎ๐ถ for the Lions of Mesopotamia. Iraqis at home and abroad use it for heritage, food and posts about Baghdad, Basra or Erbil.
Its red, white and black stripes match ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt and ๐พ๐ช Yemen; the green Arabic words mark it as Iraq's.
Facts
Flag: Iraq ๐ฎ๐ถ 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 :iraq: or :flag_iraq:. People also look for it with words like โIQโ 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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