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 ๐ฐ๐ท 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 โฏ๏ธ, though it is drawn in red and blue.
Facts
Flag: South Korea ๐ฐ๐ท 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 โKRโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
flags ยท Unicode 6.0