The flag of the United Arab Emirates: a red vertical band beside green, white and black horizontal stripes. It stands for the UAE and its seven emirates, including Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Travelers and expats post ๐ฆ๐ช with photos of the Dubai skyline, desert trips and new jobs in the Gulf. Emiratis use it on National Day, 2 December, often with โค๏ธ๐.
It shares its colors with ๐ฐ๐ผ Kuwait and ๐ต๐ธ Palestine, but only the UAE flag has a straight red bar along the pole side.
Facts
Flag: United Arab Emirates ๐ฆ๐ช 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 :united_arab_emirates: or :flag_united_arab_emirates:. People also look for it with words like โAEโ 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.
flags ยท Emoji 2.0