The flag of the Isle of Man: three armored legs joined at the hip, the triskelion, on red. It stands for the island in the Irish Sea, a British Crown Dependency.
Motorbike fans post ๐ฎ๐ฒ for the TT road races with ๐๏ธ. Manx people use it for local pride and the Manx language.
The island is also known for Manx cats, which are often born without tails, so ๐ sometimes rides along.
Facts
Flag: Isle of Man ๐ฎ๐ฒ 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 :isle_of_man: or :flag_isle_of_man:. People also look for it with words like โIMโ 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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