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🌈 Rainbow Emoji

Rainbow Emoji usually form when there’s sun and some rain droplets at the same time. In general cases, Rainbows are seen as a form of pride or a weather gesture. They are used in some cultures to depict gay pride and the acceptance of full spectrum of people and preferences. Traditionally, rainbow was a form of pride and a venture for cultural games. Small Irish Hominoids are known to hide a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Now rainbow Emoji has become popular and has many uses depending on the context and the message being conveyed.

Rainbow Emoji was added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Unicode Code Point(s)
🌈 : U+1F308

🌈 Images

🌈 Codes

Shortcode	:rainbow:
Decimal HTML Entity	🌈
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	☀🌈
Punycode	xn--og8h
URL Escape Code	%F0%9F%8C%88
JavaScript & JSON	\ud83c\udf08
C, C++ & Java	\ud83c\udf08

History of Pride flag Emoji

This Emoji was part of the first non-standardized Emoji set that was introduced by the Chinese Carriers such as Softbank. They later became part iOS 2.2 especially for those Apple iPhones sold in English speaking countries. The underlying code that iPhone manufacturers generate for Rainbow Emoji was changed in iOS 5/ OSX 10.7. It was introduced in iOS 2.2 in 2008.

Today, this Emoji is utilized widely in almost all social media platforms. It was first introduced on Twitter in 2011 and was only used to comment on weather matters. Now, this Emoji has gained some significant with guy cultures and gay rights and is widely used to represent the guy pride. In this case, it is used together with the white flag. Before Emojis were introduced in the social media, rainbow was used as a symbol of LGBTQ. It has been a symbol of LGBTQ since 1978.

After the legalization of the same-gender marriages in the US in 2015, this Emoji grew in popularity. In 2016, the Rainbow Emoji was officially added as a rainbow flag Emoji in 2016. FaceBook started using this Emoji in 2013 in response to the proposals to legalize same-gender marriages. In June 2017, FaceBook introduced the Rainbow flag Emoji which caused stir in the Christian community. Christians threatened to ban anyone who used this Emoji.

What does Rainbow Emoji mean?

This Emoji is now widely used not for emotional state but for emphasis or as an added comment. You may also see this Emoji in Twitter Bios. However, rainbow Emoji is used widely to depict two meanings. One of it relates to the nature and the other one to LGBT. It can be used to comment on matters concerning the weather-either it is cold, windy, sunny or rainy. It conveys the happiness, the joyfulness, love and luck that the nature brings to us.

As we had already stated above, Rainbow flag Emoji became a symbol of people who have preferences in heterosexual matters. It’s now widely used to comment on posts concerning Gay and other cases of heterosexual.

In some other cases, it can be used in matters concerning colors. You can use it to warn your friend not to dress in many colors. It can as well be used to mean that the party was colorful.

Examples uses of Rainbow Emoji in conversations

Over the first few years, the public acceptance of guy marriages has grown tremendously 🌈

Now John and Mark are ready to tie the knot 🌈

Remember not to make it too colorful 🌈