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Finland emojis

An angry-looking person with shaggy blond hair and a black speech bubble filled with letter and symbols that imply a swear word.

:perkele:

Perkele

The feeling of PRKL.

The mother of all Finnish swearwords. Literally means the devil but at the same time it means so much more. You can make the curse longer and more effective by rolling the ‘r’. If you say it, say it like you mean it!

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Finland is the first country in the world to publish its own set of country themed emojis. The Finland emoji collection contains 56 tongue-in-cheek emotions, which were created to explain some hard-to-describe Finnish emotions, Finnish words and customs.

You can use and share the unmodified images freely for non-commercial use.

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