🚩 Triangular Flag

🚩 Triangular Flag is one of the general flags in Unicode's Flags group. Typical contexts are construction, flag, golf and post. Unicode also files it under triangular, which shows how widely it is read.

Worth knowing: 🚩 carries a second, informal reading. In chats it often means something other than the literal picture – our overview of double meaning emojis explains which one.

🚩 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Symbols and Signs. The character has been part of the standard since 2010 (Emoji 0.6). Its code point is U+1F6A9.

• 🚩 on its own already flags the topic: construction.
• 🚩🤨 – "Something is off here." Scepticism about a person or story.
• Often seen near 🎌 Crossed Flags, 🏁 Chequered Flag and 🏴 Black Flag.

Online, since around 2020 the red flag has meant a warning sign in relationships: behaviour you would do better to walk away from. TikTok turned lists of red flags into a format of their own; the counterpart is the green flag.

Historically the red flag is the emblem of the labour movement and socialism, and before that a danger signal. In motorsport it means a race is stopped. The new meaning has almost displaced the old ones in everyday use.

• 🚩🤨 – "Something is off here." Scepticism about a person or story.

Easy to mix up with 🎌 Crossed Flags, 🏁 Chequered Flag or 🏴 Black Flag. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.