What ๐บ๐ฆ means
Ukraine's flag: blue over yellow, often read as sky over wheat fields. It stands for Ukraine and Ukrainian people.
Since Russia's full-scale invasion, people around the world add it to names and posts to show support for Ukraine, often with ๐๐ or ๐ป. Ukrainians use it for national pride, Independence Day and news from home.
Facts
Flag: Ukraine ๐บ๐ฆ 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 :ukraine: or :flag_ukraine:. People also look for it with words like โUAโ 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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