Flag: Scotland

What 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 means

Scotland's flag, the Saltire: a white diagonal cross on blue. It represents Scotland and Scottish pride.

Seen at rugby and football matches, on Burns Night, at Hogmanay 🎆 and on St. Andrew's Day. Scots abroad and people with Scottish ancestry use it with 🥃 or 🏰 for whisky and castles.

It is one of the subdivision flags. Some older devices cannot show it and fall back to a black flag.

Facts

Flag: Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is an emoji in the flags category, under subdivision flag. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :scotland: or :flag_scotland:. People also look for it with words like “flag” or “gbsct”.

Timeline

1. 2017Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 5.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

flags · Emoji 5.0