Jamaican Flag Emoji

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Jamaican Flag Emoji

πŸ‡―πŸ‡²Jamaica flagU+1F1EF U+1F1F2Ready to copy

38 items. Tap one to copy it.

Flag and letters 5

As text 9

Black, green, gold 4

What colours mean 4

Diagonal crosses 3

Days and places 9

Flag blocks 4

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How it works

Jamaica flag is the Jamaican flag emoji. The flag it draws is a gold diagonal cross with green above and below and black at each side. The emoji itself is only two letters, J and M.

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No red, white or blue

Wikipedia records that since 2017 this is the only flag of a sovereign country with none of those three colours. Its own are named in its nickname, Black, green and gold, the order Black, green, gold in hearts keeps.

A cross with relatives

The cross is a saltire. Wikipedia records that the flag has been said to take it from Scotland flag. Jersey flag has one too, and is one letter away: J then E, where Jamaica is J then M.

Questions and answers

What do black, green and gold mean on the Jamaican flag?

Wikipedia gives the reading in use since 1996: black for the strength and creativity of the people, gold for wealth and sunshine, green for the island's vegetation and for hope. Before that: hardships there are but the land is green and the sun shineth.

Why do I see JM instead of the Jamaican flag?

The emoji carries no picture, only J and M in a special set of letters. Where flag pictures exist the pair is drawn as the flag. Elsewhere the two letters stay, which Unicode's emoji standard allows.

Which emoji stand for Jamaica?

Only the flag by name: CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, has nothing under jamaica, jamaican or reggae. Reggae and Blue Mountains here pair the flag with a second emoji.

All 38 items

Flag and letters 5

  • πŸ‡― πŸ‡² The two halves kept apart by a space, to show how the flag is built
  • Jamaica flag U+1F1EF U+1F1F2. Two characters, regional indicator J and regional indicator M, which a phone draws as the black, green and gold flag. Its Unicode name is flag: Jamaica; CLDR lists one search word for it, flag. Emoji 2.0.
  • πŸ‡―πŸ‡² JM, πŸ‡―πŸ‡ͺ JE, πŸ‡―πŸ‡΄ JO, πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ JP The four flags that start with J, each with its letters
  • Regional indicator J U+1F1EF Regional indicator symbol letter J. Four flags open with it: Jersey (JE), Jamaica (JM), Jordan (JO) and Japan (JP).
  • Regional indicator M U+1F1F2 Regional indicator symbol letter M. Put straight after J, it closes the Jamaica flag.

As text 9

  • πŸ‡―πŸ‡² π—π—”π— π—”π—œπ—–π—” πŸ‡―πŸ‡² The name in bold capitals, with a flag at each end
  • #009639 The flag's green on fabric, Pantone 355 C, as a web colour
  • #FFD100 The flag's gold on fabric, Pantone 109 C, as a web colour
  • J$ The sign of the Jamaican dollar, typed as two characters: a J and the dollar sign
  • JM The letters alone, which is what the flag turns into where flags are not drawn
  • πŸ‡―πŸ‡² JM The flag with its code beside it
  • Jumieka πŸ‡―πŸ‡² Jamaica as it is written in Jamaican Patois
  • Kingston πŸ‡―πŸ‡² The capital and largest city, then the flag
  • Out of Many, One People The national motto
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Black, green, gold 4

  • Black, green, gold in circles Black circle, then green circle, then yellow circle. Green circle and yellow circle are from Emoji 12.0.
  • Black, green, gold in hearts Black heart, then green heart, then yellow heart. The three colours in the order of the flag's nickname. Black heart is from Emoji 3.0.
  • Black, green, gold in squares Black large square, then green square, then yellow square. Green square and yellow square are from Emoji 12.0.
  • Green, gold, black ribbon Nine squares as a divider line, with gold between the green and the black as on the flag.

What colours mean 4

  • Black for strength Flexed biceps, then black large square. Black stands for the strength and creativity of the people.
  • Gold for sunshine Sun, then yellow square. Gold stands for the wealth of the country and the golden sunshine.
  • Green for the land Palm tree, then green square. Green stands for the lush vegetation of the island, and for hope.
  • The land is green Palm tree, then sun, then flag: Jamaica. After the older reading of the flag: hardships there are but the land is green and the sun shineth.

Diagonal crosses 3

  • πŸ‡―πŸ‡² The Cross A nickname of the flag. The other is Black, green and gold.
  • Jersey flag U+1F1EF U+1F1EA. A red diagonal cross on white, and the flag one letter away: J then E. Emoji 2.0.
  • Scotland flag U+1F3F4 U+E0067 U+E0062 U+E0073 U+E0063 U+E0074 U+E007F. A white diagonal cross on blue. Wikipedia records that the flag of Jamaica has been said to be directly inspired by it. Emoji 5.0.

Days and places 9

  • Blue Mountains Mountain, then flag: Jamaica. The longest mountain range in Jamaica, with the island's highest point.
  • City of Kingston Flag: Jamaica, then cityscape. The capital, on the southeastern coast of the island.
  • Doctor bird Bird, then flag: Jamaica. The national bird is the red-billed streamertail, a hummingbird known as the doctor bird. No emoji is a hummingbird, so the plain bird stands in.
  • Flight to Kingston Airplane, then flag: Jamaica. For a trip to the island.
  • Heart for Jamaica Flag: Jamaica, then green heart.
  • Island in the Caribbean Desert island, then water wave, then flag: Jamaica. Jamaica is the third-largest island in the Caribbean.
  • Pinned in Jamaica Round pushpin, then flag: Jamaica. For a bio that says where you are.
  • Reggae Musical notes, then flag: Jamaica. A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. Reggae music of Jamaica was added to a UNESCO heritage list in 2018.
  • Sixth of August Flag: Jamaica, then fireworks. Independence Day, 6 August, the national day. The flag was adopted on that day in 1962.

Flag blocks 4

  • Jamaica flag block in circles The small block in circles.
  • Jamaica flag block, large Five rows of nine squares, close to the flag's 1 high to 2 wide. It needs a box nine emoji wide, or the rows wrap.
  • Jamaica flag block, small Three rows of five squares: gold at the corners and the centre, green along the top and bottom, black at the sides. Three lines when pasted.
  • Jamaica flag in keyboard characters G for green at the top and bottom, B for black at the sides, and slanted strokes for the gold cross, all typed on a keyboard.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-16 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); each flag was checked against the lists of recommended flag and tag sequences, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-sequences.txt). In that list the Jamaica flag is U+1F1EF U+1F1F2, regional indicators J and M, Emoji 2.0, and four flags start with the letter J: Jersey, Jamaica, Jordan and Japan. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml): flag is the only word listed for the Jamaica flag, and no emoji is listed under jamaica, jamaican, reggae or hummingbird. Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt); none of its currency signs is named for Jamaica. Unicode Technical Standard 51, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/) defines a flag emoji as a sequence of two Regional Indicator characters and, in Annex B, gives showing each as a letter as one option for a system with no picture for the pair. Unicode data is used under the Unicode terms of use (https://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html). Facts about the flag, the country and its days are restated from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): a gold diagonal cross that divides the flag into four triangles, green at the top and bottom and black at the hoist and the fly, proportion 1:2, adopted on 6 August 1962, nicknamed The Cross and Black, green and gold, said to have been directly inspired by the flag of Scotland, the reading of the colours in use since 1996 and the earlier one, the statement that since 2017 it is the only flag of a sovereign country without white, red or blue, and the colour values Pantone 109 C (#FFD100) and Pantone 355 C (#009639) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Jamaica); Kingston as capital and largest city on the southeastern coast, the name Jumieka, the motto Out of Many, One People, the third-largest island in the Caribbean and the doctor bird (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston,_Jamaica); the dollar and its sign J$ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_dollar); reggae and its UNESCO listing of 2018 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggae); the red-billed streamertail, a hummingbird and the national bird (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-billed_streamertail); the Blue Mountains (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mountains_(Jamaica)); Independence Day on 6 August (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Jamaica)); the red saltire of Jersey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Jersey). Left out: any claim about how a maker draws the flag or which systems show flags, every person, and food and drink. The combos, text lines and flag blocks are our own. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text lines, the flag blocks and the notes are ours. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia are restated in our own words and credited in the source line.

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