Flag: South Korea

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Shortcode
:kr:
Shortcode
:flag_south_korea:
Unicode
U+1F1F0 U+1F1F7
HTML
🇰🇷
CSS
\1F1F0\1F1F7
JavaScript
"\u{1F1F0}\u{1F1F7}"
URL
%F0%9F%87%B0%F0%9F%87%B7

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What ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท means

South Korea's flag, the Taegukgi: a red and blue circle on white with four black trigrams. Fans send it for the country and Korean culture.

K-pop and K-drama fans post ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท everywhere, along with Korean learners and food lovers. Sports fans use it for football and esports.

The trigrams stand for heaven, earth, water and fire. The center circle echoes โ˜ฏ๏ธ, though it is drawn in red and blue.

Facts

Flag: South Korea ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท 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 :kr: or :flag_south_korea:. People also look for it with words like โ€œKRโ€ or โ€œflagโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. flag: South Korea, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. flag: South Korea, Google (Noto) design from 20172017

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. flag: South Korea, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

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

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