Triangular flag

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Shortcode: :triangular_flag_on_post:
Shortcode: :triangular_flag:
Unicode: U+1F6A9
HTML: 🚩
CSS: \1F6A9
JavaScript: "\u{1F6A9}"
URL: %F0%9F%9A%A9

What 🚩 means

A small red pennant on a pole. Online it almost always means "red flag": a warning sign about a person, a deal or a situation.

Dating talk runs on it: a list of bad behavior gets 🚩🚩🚩, and a joke "red flag" trend pairs harmless quirks with a row of flags. The opposite, a good sign, is often written as 🟩 or 💚 "green flag".

The picture also matches a golf hole marker or a survey stake, and some people still use it that way, so context decides.

Facts

Triangular flag 🚩 is an emoji in the flags category, under 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 :triangular_flag_on_post: or :triangular_flag:. People also look for it with words like “construction”, “flag”, “golf”, or “post”.