What ๐ณ๐บ means
Niue's flag: yellow with a Union Jack in the corner, decorated with a blue disc and yellow stars. It stands for Niue, a self-governing island in free association with New Zealand.
Niueans, many of whom live in New Zealand, use it for island pride and family news. Travelers tag coral reefs, sea caves and whale watching ๐ with it.
Niue's web domain .nu is popular in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands, because "nu" means "now" there.
Facts
Flag: Niue ๐ณ๐บ 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 :niue: or :flag_niue:. People also look for it with words like โNUโ 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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