🇬🇼 flag: Guinea-Bissau Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the flag: Guinea-Bissau Emoji 🇬🇼 Mean?

A vertical red band at the hoist with a black five-pointed star, and two horizontal bands on the fly — yellow on top, green at the bottom. Designed by Amílcar Cabral's PAIGC liberation movement and adopted at independence from Portugal in 1973, the design uses Pan-African colors. Red stands for the blood of independence fighters, yellow for the sun and labor, green for hope and the forests, and the Black Star of Africa for the freedom and dignity of African peoples.

The emoji shows up during Independence Day (September 24), Lusophone music posts, and cashew-export discussions (Guinea-Bissau is a major cashew producer). Travelers tag it with the Bissagos Islands archipelago shots. Coded in Unicode 6.0 from GW, it pairs with star, palm-tree, and music emojis.

The diaspora across Portugal uses it during cultural events. Note: a different country from Guinea. Amílcar Cabral's PAIGC movement was famously studied as a model of decolonization theory.

Bissau-Guinean musicians like Tabanka Djaz, Manecas Costa, and the diaspora's funk and gumbe styles regularly feature alongside the flag in music posts.