Talk:Flag of Myanmar

message: The latest news (but not definite & from unknown source) : People heard that the color of Myanmar flag will change. It will be three colors: Red, Green & Yellow. Red represents bravery, green refers to agriculture, & the yellow for unity of all the Nationalities.
:I found a New Light of Myanmar article (English) about the new flag. The link is here, "The Flag is marked with green, yellow and red stripes in a proportionate ratio. On the left end of the green stripe at the top of the Flag is a large white star directing upwards" (quite a long title).--Hintha 23:14, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Who was pissed when they decided on that, maybe those from Malawi supplied the grog. Any complaits about this flag? Enlil Ninlil (talk) 21:15, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

text: Looks like the flag of Lithuania whith a star on it :)Игорь Бродский (talk) 05:23, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: New national flag

message: Dear Kintetsubuffalo,
According to the FOTW source, the flag of the Third Burmese Empire under Konbaung Dynasty should be a white flag with peacock (the version in FOTW depicted a red peacock, my svg version was based on that version), not the red swallowtailed flag with black cross. In the last paragraph of the section "Mid 19th century" of the historical Burmese flags topic in FOTW stated that "The flag shown here is the standard of the royal artillery who were mainly Christian Portuguese descendants (hence the cross)."  In addition, there are some flag charts in 1860s (contemporary to the reign of King Mindon of Konbaung Dynasty) showed the peacock flag as the flag of Burma. Please see the Gallery below. Burma in these charts spelled "Birmah"
File:National and Commercial Flags of All Nations, 1868.jpg|Flag chart "National and Commercial Flags of All Nations", c.1868, published by Colton, (G.W. & C.B.) & Co. (cilck to enlarge)
File:Burmese peacock flag (National and Commercial Flags of All Nations, 1868).JPG|Burmese flag in 1860s (cropped from National and Commercial Flags of All Nations, Colton, (G.W. & C.B.) & Co.)
File:Johnson's New Chart of National Emblems 1, 1868.jpg|Flag chart "Johnson's New Chart of National Emblems", c.1868, published by Johnson, A. J. (Alvin Jewett) (cilck to enlarge)
File:Burmese peacock flag (Johnson's New Chart of National Emblems, 1868).JPG|Burmese flag in 1860s (cropped from Johnson's New Chart of National Emblems)
File:Flag of Burma (Alaungpaya Dynasty).svg|SVG version of the Burmese peacock flag (based on FOTW source)
File:Flag of Burmese Empire (1853-1876).svg|A Burmese flag in mid 19th century - in the FOTW website state that is "the standard of the royal artillery who were mainly Christian Portuguese descendants"
Following these flag charts, I think it should be replaced the red-swallowtailed-and-black-cross flag with one depicted a peacock on white background.
Regards,
--Xiengyod (talk) 10:29, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag of the Third Burmese Empire (Konbaung Dynasty) 

message: The flag of the Burmese Resistance should be here somewhere, as the article says, the modern flags originated from a "red flag with white star". 76.66.199.238 (talk) 04:08, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It should be called the Anti Fascist Organization or AFO flag. How the modern flag relates to the AFO flag is unclear. The AFO flag was red with a five-pointed white star in the upper corner. The new flag has a large star in its center. 70.234.226.237 (talk) 01:06, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burmese resistance 

message: Anyone know why this flag isn't the war ensign (or rather any citation for the usage guide?)
I've checked the modification history and no explanation was given when the usage symbol was added.  If this isn't the war ensign then what is?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.244.153.18 (talk) 15:15, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: According to FOTW it was this  as of 2002 or 2003. No idea if it's still in use with the new national flag. Orange Tuesday (talk) 15:20, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  War Ensign 

message: The war flag and the army flag of Myanmar respectively, according to the War flag article. Should they be inculded here? 
KPUFFERFİSHṪ•Ċ 10:04, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  War and army flags of Burma 

message: Has the flag of the Myanmar Air Force remained the same through the recent changes?Xufanc (talk) 05:18, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no mention of any flag besides the national one in the constitution. Unless we hear otherwise we can probably assume that it remained the same. Orange Tuesday (talk) 13:48, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Air Force Flag

message: The peacock on the 1943 Burmese Flag was almost certainly NOT a continuation of the British version of the Peacock from the before the war. The idea that there is "one" consistantly used depiction of a peacock on Burmese flags ia false. In late 1941, the Burma Indpendence Army created two different Peacock Flags. One was Peacock in center, green background, red bolts coming toward the center. That Peacock (which I have personally seen in Rangoon on the original Flag) looks nothing like the British version of the Peacock. The flag was a white background with a red stylized peacock (totally different again) in the center. I've seen a black and white photo of that flag. 
British Intelligence reports from 1943 (collected in the book "Burma During the Japanese Occupation" p. 14) describe the 1943 flag as follows: "the Dobama tri-colour, yellow, green and red horizontal bands with the Peacock-in-its-Pride colored in green, blue and red in a circular inset in the centre".  
The Burmese-written multivolume history of the Burmese Army (volume one) shows two different 1943 flags with different peacocks in center. One of them is close to the version on flags of the world with wings down but colored red-green-blue. There is a second one with wings up and half-circle of feathers also with peacock in red-green-blue. The same book has a picture of the 1941 Burma Indpendence Army (green background). The peacock in that flag is a stylized illustration close to what was on the real flag but exactly the same. I think in general the army illustrations are stylistically close to what was on the flag but don't represent the exact design of the peacock. I somewhat think that any depection of the 1943 flag short of a photograph is either going to be a version prepared for printing or some form of simplified illustration. 
I've yet to see anything I consider a trustworthy representation of the 1943 flag. But the one thing I'm absolutely sure of is that the peacock on the flag is not a contuation of any previous Burmese flag. The politics of Burma in 1942-1943 would have absolutely rejected any use of any part of the British flag. The British version only came back in 1945 when the British administration returned. 
I'm not proposing any change to the article. This is all informational.
70.234.226.237 (talk) 00:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peacocks and Flags 

message: There is no definitive version of the Konbaung Dynasty flag. There only exists written accounts of what it looked like and illustrations based on those written accounts. The article should make it clear that whats presented is NOT the actual image of the flag from that era but a recreation. 70.234.226.237 (talk) 01:13, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Konbaung Dynasty Flag 

message: Thanks for the illustration of the new flag with the big white star. But maybe the colour green should be a little bit darker? Pantone 361 http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx?c_id=6831 colour #34b233 http://www.colorhexa.com/34b233 91.61.200.226 (talk) 06:44, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: We are using Pantone 361 already, but the coated version. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 07:17, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  New flag, colour green  

message: I've removed this sentence because it's poorly written: "During the 2008 Summer Olympics,Because the Blue sky,white sun and a Wholly Red Earth was banned by the Beijing authorities, so the fans of Chinese Taipei national baseball team use 1974 Flag of Burma as the Blue sky,white sun and a Wholly Red Earth to cheer Chinese Taipei national baseball team up.[9]". I'd revise the content but the source is in Chinese, so I can't be certain if the rewording is done correctly.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.189.106.4 (talk) 17:37, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taiwan Flag 

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message: Mention which ones of these flags have Unicode emojis. Jidanni (talk) 04:30, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicode emojis 

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