What ๐ช๐ธ means
Spain's flag: red, a wide yellow band, and red, with the coat of arms toward the pole side. It represents Spain and Spanish culture.
Football fans post ๐ช๐ธ for La Roja, Real Madrid and Barcelona. Travelers add it with ๐ฅ, ๐ and โ๏ธ, and learners use it to tag Spanish lessons.
Many people use ๐ช๐ธ to mean the Spanish language. Spanish speakers in Latin America often prefer their own country's flag for that.
Facts
Flag: Spain ๐ช๐ธ 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 :es: or :flag_spain:. People also look for it with words like โESโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
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