What ๐ผ๐ธ means
Samoa's flag: red, with a blue upper corner showing five white stars of the Southern Cross. It represents Samoa and Samoan people.
Rugby fans post it for Manu Samoa ๐, and Samoans in New Zealand, Australia and the US use it for island pride, siva dance and family events. Wrestling fans link it to the famous Samoan wrestling dynasties.
American Samoa is a separate US territory with its own flag, ๐ฆ๐ธ.
Facts
Flag: Samoa ๐ผ๐ธ 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 :samoa: or :flag_samoa:. People also look for it with words like โWSโ 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