What ๐ฒ๐ถ means
Stands for Martinique, a Caribbean island that is part of France. Its assembly adopted a red, green and black flag as the island's own, and the French tricolor also flies there officially.
Martinicans use it to mark their island identity, Creole culture, zouk music and carnival. Visitors pair it with ๐ด and ๐ฅ for beach and rum distillery trips.
The emoji's look varies by device. Some show an old flag with a white cross and four snakes on blue, which many islanders object to because it dates from the slave-trade era.
Facts
Flag: Martinique ๐ฒ๐ถ 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 :martinique: or :flag_martinique:. People also look for it with words like โMQโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
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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