A plain black flag on a pole, the black-flag emoji carries none of the cheer of its colorful cousins. It's the pirate flag, the anarchist symbol, the go-to for a dark or edgy aesthetic — used far more often to set a mood than to mark an actual country or team.
What 🏴 means
A waving rectangular black flag stitched onto a flag pole to its left. The 🏴 Black Flag emoji could signify mourning, death, loss, and a sense of anarchy, as it falls as the symbolic anarchist flag too.
How and when to use it
- If you're sharing something that's sad; a mourning news post, a post on grief, a RIP repost, or even a caption surrounding any of these themes, you can tag along the 🏴.
- Generally, if there's a thick amount of black in a post/repost, like a black background, a gothic post, a dark picture, a dark quote, anything, 🏴 can be part of the caption.
- If you wish to take the 'anarchist' angle to 🏴 forward, then feel free to use this emoji while referring to anything that lacks authority or is not under an authoritative figure; be it a government or a person.
- The absence of authority in any form may be a source of individualization and chaos at the same time. Hence, while using such themes, welcome the 🏴.
Other Names
- 🏴 Mourning Flag
- 🏴 RIP
- 🏴 Anarchist Flag
- 🏴 Waving Black Flag
- 🏴 Black Flag With Flag Post
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › flag
- Codepoints
U+1F3F4- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:black_flag:GitHub · Discord:waving_black_flag:Slack · Discord:flag_black:Discord- Keywords
- black, flag, waving
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🏴 Black Flag or 🧲 Magnet?
Runs with a crowd
🏴 keeps company in black emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.