Flag: South Africa

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Shortcode
:south_africa:
Shortcode
:flag_south_africa:
Unicode
U+1F1FF U+1F1E6
HTML
🇿🇦
CSS
\1F1FF\1F1E6
JavaScript
"\u{1F1FF}\u{1F1E6}"
URL
%F0%9F%87%BF%F0%9F%87%A6

ZAflag

What ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ means

South Africa's flag: a green Y shape bordered in white and gold, with red above, blue below and a black triangle at the hoist. It stands for South Africa and its "Rainbow Nation" of many peoples.

Rugby fans post it for the Springboks ๐Ÿ‰, and it fills timelines for Bafana Bafana and the Proteas too. It also tags amapiano music, braai weekends and travel to Cape Town.

Facts

Flag: South Africa ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ 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 :south_africa: or :flag_south_africa:. People also look for it with words like โ€œZAโ€ or โ€œflagโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. flag: South Africa, Google (Noto) design from 20152015

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. flag: South Africa, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

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

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