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🇨🇳 Flag for China

[flag fer chahy-nuh ih-moh-jee]

July 5, 2018

What does 🇨🇳 Flag for China mean?

🇨🇳 is the flag for China emoji, used to represent Chinese life and 3000-year-old culture, from the ancient Great Wall to modern megacities like Shanghai.

Related words:

Chinese New Year emoji
CN
Five-star Red Flag
People’s Republic of China

Where does 🇨🇳 Flag for China come from?

Examples of 🇨🇳 Flag for China

Vacation mode officially on! For the next two weeks ! #AsiaTrip2k18 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🇹🇭 🇰🇷 🇯🇵

@jesus__gomez_, June, 2018

Concluded a successful Crowe Global board of directors meeting this week in Beijing. Thank you members for making the trip and contributing. Strong relationships furthered with our China 🇨🇳 member firm were also accomplished. Safe travels home!

@AllenCMCrowe, June, 2018

🇨🇳 I love Chinese food 🥡 (Yeah) / you know that it’s true (Yeah) 👌🏻👌🏻💯 / I love fried rice 🍚( Yeah) / I love noodles 🍜(Yeah) / I love Chow mein 🥢🥡🥡🥢🥢 / 😋😋🤪 Chow Mo-Mo-Mo-Mo Mo!!!! 😏😋🇨🇳

@gorrissey, June, 2018

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Who uses 🇨🇳 Flag for China?

Like other flag emoji for their respective countries, the flag for China emoji is popular on social media among travelers to China and companies promoting vacations there.

This happened on the Great Wall and I forgot to post it🇨🇳 pic.twitter.com/PUhdj8YWSA

— Zane Small (@gozane07) June 28, 2018

It’s also used to rep all elements of Chinese culture: sports, politics, art, food, language, and so forth. People of Chinese heritage all around the world also raise the flag for China emoji, of course, as well as China’s nearly 1.5 billion people.

I’m gonna miss all this 😭🔥🇨🇳 pic.twitter.com/kcTy2UmwoK

— Mpanza (@Sibu_MpanzaSA) June 28, 2018

Some folks use the flag for China emoji to stand in for the word China for any number of topics—not all as fascinating as food porn.

China 🇨🇳 “AI Industry Alliance” ➡ over 345 member companies. Created in October 2017; a platform to federate the #AI ecosystem towards forging #Tech #Standards and best practices to accelerate adoption of #AI. #uschinaaisummit pic.twitter.com/Sfgezc48Yk

— Nicolas Miailhe (@n_miailhe) June 29, 2018

In fact, lots of posts featuring the flag for China emoji are about business deals. No small surprise, since China has had lots of economic growth in the past decade, to say the least.

1st LeoxCrusade Business Trip to China 🇨🇳 It might be scary to venture into the unknown but we never shy away from overcoming all those obstacles. We took the risks and it was worth it! 💪🏼 #LeoxCrusade #CEO #SupportYoungEntrepreneurs #TLPVision2020 pic.twitter.com/iJFRi3Apxz

— Fadli Ersyafie (@FadliErsyafie) June 25, 2018

Not all uses of the flag for China emoji, though, are positive. The internet and media are variously censored and closely monitored in China, something social-media users note in the West illustrate with lots of 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 🇨🇳.

In a 20-minute segment about #China that aired Sunday on the satirical news show ❝#LastWeekTonight❞ @iamjohnoliver was so superlative in mocking #Chinese #Censorship that he is now Censored in #China🇨🇳😷https://t.co/7BIklpiQyk

— Asian Warrior (@TheTomar) June 22, 2018

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