A black flag with a skull and crossbones, the Jolly Roger of pirate stories. It means pirates, plunder and treasure, and online it also hints at pirated movies, music or software.
Pirate-themed parties, sailing trips, One Piece fan posts and Talk Like a Pirate Day all use ๐ดโโ ๏ธ, often with โ and ๐ฆ. Some use it for a rebel or rule-breaker mood.
Its joined form is ๐ด plus โ ๏ธ, so an unsupported device shows the two separately.
Facts
Pirate flag ๐ดโโ ๏ธ is an emoji in the flags category, under flag. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. It is a sequence that joins ๐ด black flag and โ ๏ธ skull and crossbones. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :pirate_flag:. People also look for it with words like โJollyโ, โRogerโ, โflagโ, or โpirateโ.