What ๐ฐ๐ฎ means
The flag of Kiribati: a gold frigatebird over a rising sun on red, with blue and white wavy stripes below. It stands for the Pacific island nation spread across the equator.
It turns up in posts about Pacific culture, about the first places to greet the new year, and about rising seas, since its low atolls are at risk.
The name is said "KIR-ee-bas", because the letters "ti" in Gilbertese sound like "s".
Facts
Flag: Kiribati ๐ฐ๐ฎ 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 :kiribati: or :flag_kiribati:. People also look for it with words like โKIโ 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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