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The coat of arms of Ukraine is a blue shield with a golden trident.It is colloquially known as the tryzub (Ukrainian: тризуб, pronounced, lit. ' trident '). The small coat of arms was officially adopted on 19 February 1992, [1] while constitutional provisions exist for establishing the great coat of arms, which is not yet officially adopted as of March 2024.
Type Symbol Image Notes Flag: Flag of Ukraine [1]: National Flag of Ukraine: Official Coat of arms: Coat of arms of Ukraine [2]: Emblem of Ukraine: Official. The lone emblem featured on it is the tryzub (meaning "trident"), a state sigil of the Kyivan Rus from the 10th century A.D., [3] believed to originally represent the Holy Trinity, possibly adapted from symbolism of a falcon.
But now, instead of the hammer-and-sickle emblem, the shield features the Ukrainian tryzub, the trident that was adopted as the coat of arms of independent Ukraine on Feb. 19, 1992.
A modified trident of Saint Vladimir was found as a basic element of the coat of arms of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAPC) before it merged to form the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The trident of Volodymyr is also used by followers of the Native Ukrainian National Faith , a branch of the Slavic Native Faith , as part of the ...
English: Lesser Coat of Arms of Ukraine, the so called Tryzub. A stylised trident symbol in gold on a background shield of blue. A stylised trident symbol in gold on a background shield of blue. Français : Armoiries de l´Ukraine , le Tryzub , un trident stylisé d´or posé sur un écu bleu clair.
The revolutionary wing of the OUN, which was also called the OUN-B, or the Banderites, because it was headed by Stepan Bandera, sought to develop its own symbolism in order to differ from the OUN-M of Andriy Melnyk, which used the blue flag of the OUN and the coat of arms with a golden trident (tryzub) with a sword.
Ukrainian includes the special term ″тризубець″ (tryzubetsʹ) for a trident per se, the shape on the coat of arms is specifically called by a derivative term "тризуб". The difference between ″тризубець″ and "тризуб" is not fully translatable in English, yet resembles the one between a trident and a trishula ...
3.2 Coats of arms of the voivodeships of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 3.3 Coat of arms of the regiments of the Cossack Hetmanate 3.4 Coats of arms of the governorates of the Russian Empire in Ukraine