What ๐ท๐บ means
Russia's flag: white, blue and red horizontal bands. It stands for Russia, Russian speakers, or Russian heritage.
Used for national pride, sports, culture and travel to Moscow or St. Petersburg. People also add it to language-exchange profiles to show they speak Russian. It appears often in news and online arguments about the war in Ukraine, where supporters of the Russian government post it to show their side.
๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia and ๐ธ๐ฐ Slovakia use the same three colors in the same order, plus a coat of arms.
Facts
Flag: Russia ๐ท๐บ is an emoji in the flags category, under country flag. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :ru: or :flag_russia:. People also look for it with words like โRUโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
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