What ๐ฐ๐ฌ means
Kyrgyzstan, the mountainous Central Asian country, flies a red flag with a yellow sun of forty rays around a yurt roof crown, the tunduk.
Travelers post ๐ฐ๐ฌ with mountain lakes, horses and yurt camps, often with ๐๏ธ and ๐. Kyrgyz people use it for pride, the World Nomad Games and heritage.
The forty rays stand for the forty tribes united by Manas, the hero of a Kyrgyz epic.
Facts
Flag: Kyrgyzstan ๐ฐ๐ฌ 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 :kyrgyzstan: or :flag_kyrgyzstan:. People also look for it with words like โKGโ 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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