What ๐ฒ๐ฝ means
Mexico's flag: green, white and red vertical bands, with an eagle on a cactus eating a snake in the center. It stands for Mexico, Mexicans and Mexican heritage.
Huge during football matches for El Tri, Independence Day in September, and Day of the Dead posts ๐. It pairs with ๐ฎ ๐ถ๏ธ ๐ for food and parties, and Mexican Americans use it to show their roots.
Cinco de Mayo is a much bigger party in the United States than in Mexico. Without the eagle, the flag looks like ๐ฎ๐น Italy.
Facts
Flag: Mexico ๐ฒ๐ฝ 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 :mexico: or :flag_mexico:. People also look for it with words like โMXโ 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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