What ๐ต๐ญ means
The Philippine flag: blue over red, with a white triangle holding a golden eight-rayed sun and three stars. It stands for the Philippines and Filipino pride.
Filipinos at home and abroad post it for Independence Day, basketball ๐, boxing and pageants, often with โค๏ธ or "Pinoy". Overseas workers use it to stay close to home.
The flag flies with red on top in a state of war, so flying it upside down by mistake is a serious error there.
Facts
Flag: Philippines ๐ต๐ญ 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 :philippines: or :flag_philippines:. People also look for it with words like โPHโ 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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