What ๐ฐ๐ผ means
The flag of Kuwait: green, white and red stripes with a black trapezoid at the pole side. It stands for the State of Kuwait on the Persian Gulf.
Kuwaitis post ๐ฐ๐ผ around National Day on 25 February and Liberation Day the next day, often with ๐๐คโค๏ธ. It also appears in football and travel posts.
It is often confused with ๐ฆ๐ช UAE and ๐ต๐ธ Palestine; Kuwait's black shape is a trapezoid, not a bar or triangle.
Facts
Flag: Kuwait ๐ฐ๐ผ 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 :kuwait: or :flag_kuwait:. People also look for it with words like โKWโ 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.
flags ยท Emoji 2.0