What ๐ฑ๐ฐ means
Sri Lanka, the island nation south of India, flies a gold lion holding a sword on maroon, with green and orange stripes at the pole side.
Cricket fans post ๐ฑ๐ฐ during matches. Travelers use it for tea country, beaches and train rides, with ๐ต and ๐, and Sri Lankans for New Year in April.
The green and orange stripes stand for the Muslim and Tamil communities, beside the lion of the Sinhalese.
Facts
Flag: Sri Lanka ๐ฑ๐ฐ 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 :sri_lanka: or :flag_sri_lanka:. People also look for it with words like โLKโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 2.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2018
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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