What ๐ฏ๐ฒ means
Jamaica's flag: a gold diagonal cross with green triangles at top and bottom and black triangles at the sides. Jamaicans send it with fierce pride.
Reggae and dancehall fans post ๐ฏ๐ฒ with ๐ถ. Track fans use it for Jamaican sprinters, and people add it for jerk chicken, patois and Independence Day on 6 August.
The black, green and gold are often read as strength, the land and sunshine. ๐ฏ๐ฒ also shows up in posts about Bob Marley.
Facts
Flag: Jamaica ๐ฏ๐ฒ 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 :jamaica: or :flag_jamaica:. People also look for it with words like โJMโ 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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