What ๐ต๐ท means
Puerto Rico's flag: five red and white stripes with a blue triangle holding a white star. It stands for Puerto Rico and Boricua pride.
Waved hard at the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York, at baseball and boxing events, and in posts about reggaetรณn and salsa ๐ถ. Puerto Ricans on and off the island use it with โค๏ธ to show their roots.
Cuba's flag ๐จ๐บ uses the same design with the colors swapped: blue stripes and a red triangle.
Facts
Flag: Puerto Rico ๐ต๐ท 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 :puerto_rico: or :flag_puerto_rico:. People also look for it with words like โPRโ 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.
flags ยท Emoji 2.0