japan has the shape of its own country as an emoji: 🗾
it has been an emoji since before they became part of unicode (this makes sense; emoji are japanese in origin). it and some other quintessentially japanese esoterica 🏯👹🍙🍥🗻⛑️🔰 are now a part of unicode forever
food for thought the next time you contemplate backwards compatibility in the design of standards
@typhlosion 💠 too
@typhlosion fair, I just like 💠, it's "cute"