What ๐ฑ๐ง means
The flag of Lebanon: red, white and red stripes with a green cedar tree in the center. It stands for Lebanon and the large Lebanese diaspora.
Lebanese people post ๐ฑ๐ง for food like hummus and tabbouleh, music, weddings and news from Beirut. Diaspora communities in Brazil, the US, Canada and Australia use it for heritage, sometimes with ๐ฒ.
The cedar of Lebanon is an ancient symbol of the land and appears in the Bible.
Facts
Flag: Lebanon ๐ฑ๐ง 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 :lebanon: or :flag_lebanon:. People also look for it with words like โLBโ 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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