Rainbow flags, the full colour run, hearts in every shade and parade energy, gathered as copy-paste Pride emojis for June captions, bios and profile updates. Tap to copy whichever ones you need.
Pride emoji use is unusually literal: the flag is the message. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ is a zero-width-joiner sequence, a white flag joined to a rainbow, and it was added in Unicode 6.0-era builds through Emoji 4.0 in 2016. For a bio, that one glyph says everything a paragraph would. The colour run โค๏ธ๐งก๐๐๐๐ is the second standard, mirroring the six-stripe flag Gilbert Baker's original eight-stripe design was trimmed down to. ๐ค๐ค๐ค appear in newer Progress flag references, which added black and brown stripes for queer people of colour. Beyond the flags, ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฆ carry a lot of the tone in practice, and ๐ฌ๐ญ make a post about a specific couple rather than the month in general. The flag sequence is well supported on current phones, though older apps sometimes split it apart.
Gilbert Baker designed the original Pride flag in 1978 with eight stripes, each assigned a meaning, including hot pink for sex and turquoise for magic. Both were dropped for manufacturing reasons, leaving the six-colour version most people know. Red stands for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, blue for harmony and purple for spirit. Running โค๏ธ๐งก๐๐๐๐ in order reproduces it exactly, which is why that sequence shows up in so many June bios.
Using Pride Emoji Outside Of June
Pride Month is June in most countries, marking the Stonewall uprising of June 1969, but plenty of cities hold parades in other months and the flag works year round in a bio. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ in a username or display name is a standing signal rather than a seasonal one. If you are a business posting in June, the thing people notice is whether the rainbow shows up anywhere in the other eleven months, so treat the glyph as a commitment rather than decoration.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does the rainbow flag emoji sometimes show as two separate characters?โผ
๐ณ๏ธโ๐ is built from a white flag and a rainbow joined by an invisible zero-width joiner. Apps and fonts that do not support the sequence fall back to showing ๐ณ๏ธ and ๐ side by side. It is a rendering limitation, not a typing mistake.
When is Pride Month?โผ
June, in the United States, the United Kingdom and most of Europe, chosen to mark the Stonewall uprising that began on June 28, 1969. Many cities schedule their own parades elsewhere in the calendar, so local Pride dates vary widely.
Is there a transgender flag emoji?โผ
Yes, ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ was approved in Emoji 13.0 in 2020. It is not included in the copy grid above because our emoji database does not carry it yet, but it is supported on current iOS, Android and desktop platforms and can be copied from anywhere it renders.
