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馃寛 Rainbow emoji
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What does 馃寛 Rainbow emoji mean?
The rainbow emoji 馃寛听depicts a colorful arc of a rainbow. When not representing the meteorological phenomenon, the emoji can express various positive emotions, such as happiness, feelings of togetherness, hope, and good fortune. Along with the rainbow flag emoji 馃彸锔忊�嶐煂�, it’s commonly used to express LGBTQ identity and pride.
Where does 馃寛 Rainbow emoji come from?
The rainbow emoji was added to Unicode 6.0 in 2016. Apple first implemented the emoji under iOS 2.2 in 2008 for iPhones in Japan, where the cell phone carriers SoftBank and au by KDDI had featured early versions of the emoji since 2000 and 2003, respectively.
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— Nancy Tant Official (Nancycatsings)馃寛 (@Nancycatsings)
Across major platforms, the rainbow emoji听displays as an arc with most of the traditional colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Sorry, indigo. Facebook, however, does include an indigo band in its design, displayed in a blue sky. WhatsApp’s design has the rainbow emanating from a white cloud.
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With its diverse colors coming together into one, the rainbow has been a symbol of LGBTQ pride since 1978.听That year, San Francisco politician and iconic gay rights activist Harvey Milk commissioned听Gilbert Baker, a drag queen and US military veteran, to create a new flag to represent the LGBTQ community.
In 2015, after the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, self-described 鈥渜ueer trans feminist nerd鈥� Noah Slater requested the Unicode Consortium鈥攖he organization that approves new emojis鈥攁dd a rainbow flag that 鈥渦nambiguously symbolizes queer pride.鈥� Unicode took action in 2016, making available a听rainbow flag听emoji as a sequence of the white flag听emoji听馃彸锔徧齛nd rainbow emoji听馃寛, yielding听馃彸锔忊�嶐煂�.
Examples of 馃寛 Rainbow emoji
Who uses 馃寛 Rainbow emoji?
The听rainbow emoji is often used, of course, when commenting on pictures of rainbows …
You know it's going to be a good day when … 馃寛鉂�2锔忊儯
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR)
… or other moments of natural splendor.
Thank you God, for the painted sky馃寛鈽�锔忦煂�
— Lily Nelsen (@LilyNelsenMusic)
Given that they are beautiful and special, rainbows, including in their emoji form, can express various positive feelings, such as happiness and togetherness.
literally no one:
us: HAPPY HERE'S 20 SEC OF SEA OTTERS EATING <3
everyone: 馃槏馃グ馃惥馃寛馃挮鉂わ笍~*~ oMg DaY mAdE ~*~馃挏馃挄鈽笍馃寛馃馃榿
— Oregon Coast Aquarium (@orcoastaquarium)
Rainbows also figure prominently in myth and story. They are associated with luck, thanks to Irish tales of leprechauns hiding pots of gold at the end of rainbows. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, rainbows are associated with hope, as God issued a rainbow after Noah’s Flood as a covenant never to destroy life. These associations may also come into play in uses of the听rainbow听emoji.
goodluck on your future guys 馃憦馃徎 see you when i see you 馃寛鉁� i鈥檓 gonna miss you guys for sure 馃槶
— Alif Firdaus (@_aliffirdaus_)
I never had enough validation growing up…I turned to God but did not find him in the world. After many years of seeking, soul searching and taking accountability His Fruit is beginning to blossom within me.馃挏馃尯馃寛馃檹
— Enyiah (@JEnyiah)
Very frequently, the rainbow emoji is used for various LGBTQ content, including identifying as LGBTQ, LGBTQ activism, and celebrating LGBTQ pride, especially during Pride Month in June.
Happy PRIDE Month! 馃寛鉂わ笍馃А馃挍馃挌馃挋馃挏
— 雸呺垍 (@nnuknnuk)
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This is not meant to be a formal definition of 馃寛 Rainbow emoji like most terms we define on 亚洲网紅露点, but is rather an informal word summary that hopefully touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of 馃寛 Rainbow emoji that will help our users expand their word mastery.