What ๐ฏ๐ต means
Japan's flag, the Hinomaru: a red disc on white, its name meaning "circle of the sun". People send it for Japan and Japanese culture.
Anime and manga fans, Japanese learners and travelers post ๐ฏ๐ต with ๐ฃ, ๐ป and ๐ธ. Sports fans use it for the national team and baseball.
Do not confuse it with the rising sun flag with red rays, a different design that is offensive to many in Korea and China. ๐ also shows Japanese flags.
Facts
Flag: Japan ๐ฏ๐ต is an emoji in the flags category, under country flag. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :jp: or :flag_japan:. People also look for it with words like โJPโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
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