What ๐ท๐ช means
Stands for Rรฉunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar. Officially, Rรฉunion flies the flag of France.
Rรฉunionnais people use it for island pride, Creole culture and maloya music. Hikers post it from the Piton de la Fournaise volcano ๐ and the island's deep green cirques.
Many locals fly an unofficial flag with yellow rays rising from a red volcano on blue, called Lo Mahavรฉli.
Facts
Flag: Rรฉunion ๐ท๐ช 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 :reunion: or :flag_reunion:. People also look for it with words like โREโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2019
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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