What does 🚩 Triangular Flag mean?
A small red pennant on a pole, like the marker on a golf green or a pin stuck in a map. Online it is best known as the “red flag”: a warning sign that something or someone is bad news, especially in dating and relationship talk. People list red-flag behaviours, reply with a row of them to alarming stories, and also use it literally to mark a place, a deadline or an important point.
🚩 Triangular Flag is an emoji from the Flags category (special flags), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010. People use it in messages about construction, golf, post, red and warning.
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🚩 Triangular Flag on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Triangular Flag looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Triangular Flag emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🚩 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :triangular_flag_on_post:.
When was the Triangular Flag emoji added?
🚩 Triangular Flag was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🚩 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Triangular Flag. The underlying code (U+1F6A9) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.