Black, red and gold trace back to a scrappy 1813 volunteer corps and got adopted as protest colors during the failed 1848 revolution, decades before they became Germany's official flag. Banned and revived more than once across the 20th century, the tricolor now just means Germany, a match, a trip, a passport photo caption.
What 🇩🇪 means
A rectangular flag with a triband of black, orange, and yellow in the same order, placed in horizontal stripes from top to bottom.
The 🇩🇪 Flag: Germany emoji refers to the Federal Republic of Germany or just Germany; a country found at the confluence of central and western Europe.
This emoji is shown as 'DE' on some platforms.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇩🇪 Flag of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 🇩🇪 German Flag
- 🇩🇪 Flag of Germany
- 🇩🇪 Deutsch Flag
- 🇩🇪 Flag of Deutschland
- 🇩🇪 Regional Indicator Letters D and E
- 🇩🇪 Country Code - DE
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1E9 U+1F1EA- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:de::flag-de:Slack:flag_de:Discord- Keywords
- flag
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 — 🇩🇪 Flag: Germany or 🇰🇬 Flag: Kyrgyzstan?