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 ๐, 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 ๐ฟ๐ฆ 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 โZAโ 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.
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