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Meaning & usage
What does the Rainbow Flag emoji mean?
A rainbow flag, the Pride flag used by LGBTQ communities.
Celebratory and identifying. It is used as a marker in bios as often as it is used in posts.
How to use 🏳️🌈 naturally
Pride posts, June captions and bios.
Reaction symbols work like visual emphasis: they reinforce a word, rate an idea or replace a short response. Repetition normally increases intensity, but it can also make a message feel more performative.
From standard to slang
The history of 🏳️🌈
- 2016
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Rainbow Flag was first defined as emoji in Emoji 4.0, dated 2016. The release that developed the sequence system, so new concepts need not mean new characters.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2016 as the white flag joined to a rainbow. Building it as a sequence meant it could ship without a new character, and older keyboards show the two parts side by side.
- Today
How its use evolved
Pride posts, June captions and bios.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🏳️🌈 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Parade on Saturday, come along 🏳️🌈
Happy Pride to everyone 🏳️🌈
Flag is up for the month 🏳️🌈
When to use it
Using 🏳️🌈 clearly
Pride posts, June captions and bios. It lands as rainbow flag emoji or pride flag emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the rainbow flag emoji
What does 🏳️🌈 mean in a text message?
A rainbow flag, the Pride flag used by LGBTQ communities. Celebratory and identifying. It is used as a marker in bios as often as it is used in posts.
Is 🏳️🌈 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are rainbow flag emoji, pride flag emoji, 🏳️🌈 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🏳️🌈 look different on another device?
U+1F3F3 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F308 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the rainbow flag emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🏳️🌈 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the rainbow flag emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🏳️🌈 as emoji in Emoji 4.0, dated 2016. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🏳️🌈 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F3F3 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F308 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🏳️‍🌈 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🏳️‍🌈 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F3F3 \FE0F \200D \1F308 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3F3}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{1F308} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8F%B3%EF%B8%8F%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8C%88 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F3F3 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F308
- Category
- Symbols & Reactions
- Also known as
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