What ๐ณ๐ฑ means
The Dutch flag: red, white and blue horizontal stripes. It stands for the Netherlands, Dutch people and Dutch culture.
Seen around Amsterdam travel posts with ๐ท ๐ฒ and ๐ง, and during football and speed skating. On King's Day and at big matches, Dutch fans add ๐งก or ๐ , because orange is the national color.
Orange appears nowhere on the flag. It comes from the royal House of Orange.
Facts
Flag: Netherlands ๐ณ๐ฑ 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 :netherlands: or :flag_netherlands:. People also look for it with words like โNLโ 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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