Upside down flag modifier

[Corey Farwell]

An upside down flag in many countries is used as a symbol of protest against that country. In the United States, it's used as a symbol of distress.

Standard References

• Unicode Technical Standard 51 “Unicode Emoji” (beta)
• How to propose emojis to Unicode
• How to propose other additions or changes to Unicode (required form, email address: [e-mail])
• Unicode document submission form

[Christoph Päper]

The only country Iʼm aware of where this practice is somewhat common is the United States. In many countries it would not even work because of symmetric flags.