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Triangular Flag Emoji 🚩

A pennant-shaped flag on a pole, red by default — the triangular-flag emoji started life as a literal marker, the kind planted on golf greens or trail signs. These days its dominant use is the 'red flag': a warning sign about someone's behavior, especially in dating, as in 'the way he talks about his ex? red flag.'

What 🚩 means

An isosceles triangular red flag, the shortest side attached to a thin silvery flagpole. The 🚩 Triangle Flag emoji could be an illustration of a golf flag on one side of the spectrum while covering themes of emergence and attention on the other.

How and when to use it

A red flag is more 'red' than just a flag. If you're referring to the 'warning signs' in any framework, 🚩 is the way forward. Like, "Ignoring the red flags just to see the good in people will dangerously cost you 🚩".
🚩 makes a prominent appearance on a golf course. It's the flag closely placed to the scoring hole. Hence, you could either use this emoji as a general addition to any context of the game or of scoring in it.
In a similar perspective, 🚩 can also symbolize a sense of making the rules. Here's how - "I make my own goals 🚩" or "Don't follow the crowd, son. Go where no one's been and leave a trail 🚩".
If you're sharing information that's about an emergency, or any form of content that needs utmost attention and an immediate one, you can use 🚩. For instance, "🚩 Latest news about the blast coming in 🚩 or "We had to rush his cat to the emergency room 🚩".
You could also use 🚩 as a navigational marker or a flag if you will, for important pieces in a textual block. Like, "🚩 Login here to participate".

Other Names

🚩 Red Flag
🚩 Emergency Flag
🚩 Golf Flag
🚩 Red Triangular Flag
🚩 Triangular Flag
🚩 Flag on Post
🚩 Triangle Flag
🚩 Triangle Flag on Flag Post

The lowdown

Category: Flags › flag
Codepoints: U+1F6A9
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :triangular_flag_on_post:
Keywords: construction, flag, golf, post, triangular

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.