Algeria Emoji & Symbols

🇩🇿 the Algerian flag is the emoji Algerians use most: for pride, a match, the 5th of July, or simply where you are from. Its halves of green and white with a red crescent and star also work as hearts, 💚🤍❤️, and as ☪️, the star and crescent. Green is commonly read as Islam and the land, white as peace and red as the blood of those who died for independence; Algerians often call their country the land of a million and a half martyrs.

🦊 Fox stands in for the fennec, the big-eared desert fox that is Algeria's national animal and gives the football team its nickname, Les Fennecs. There is no fennec emoji, so 🦊 does the job, usually next to 🇩🇿 and ⚽.

ⵣ is not an emoji but a letter: yaz, the Tifinagh letter Z, which stands for the Amazigh (Berber) people and sits in red in the middle of the blue, green and yellow Amazigh flag. In Kabylie, the Aurès and among Amazigh Algerians everywhere it is the identity sign, pasted into names, bios and posts. The Amazigh flag has no emoji, so ⵣ is what people copy instead. Tamazight became a national language of Algeria in 2002 and an official one, beside Arabic, in 2016.

Algerian flag emoji: copy and paste 🇩🇿, and why Windows shows DZ

The Algeria flag emoji is not a picture stored as one character. It is two regional indicator letters, 🇩 and 🇿, the country code DZ, which phones and Macs draw as the flag. Windows has no country flag pictures in its emoji font, so on a Windows PC the same emoji appears as the letters DZ; copy it anyway, the person on a phone sees the flag. On Discord you can type :flag_dz:.

DZ comes from Dzayer, the way Algerians say the name of their country (in Standard Arabic al-Jazāʾir, after the islets off the harbour of Algiers). That is why you see "DZ" in so much Algerian slang, team names and usernames, and why "dz emoji" is a search of its own. The flag itself was adopted at independence in 1962. For Algeria's neighbours see our Morocco and Tunisia collections, and all the others in Flag Emoji.

Ramadan, Eid, Yennayer and Independence Day emoji

In Ramadan the fast is broken at sunset with the ftour: traditionally a date 🌴 and a glass of milk or lben 🥛, then chorba soup 🍲. People wish each other Ramadan Karim 🌙🕌 at the start of the month and Saha ftourkoum at the meal. 🤲 is a prayer of supplication, 📿 prayer beads, 🕋 the Kaaba for the Hajj.

Eid al-Fitr, which ends Ramadan, means new clothes for the children and trays of cakes made the nights before, makrout, baklawa and others, so 🍪🍯🫖 belong with 🌙🎉. The Algerian greeting is Saha Aïdkoum, alongside Aïd Moubarak. At Eid al-Adha, called Aïd el-Kebir, families sacrifice a sheep, hence 🐏. 🪬, the hand-shaped khamsa charm, is a familiar sign of protection across the Maghreb.

Yennayer, the Amazigh New Year, falls on 12 January and has been a national holiday since 2018; people send Aseggas ameggaz (happy new year) with ⵣ and 🎉, and families sit down to a big dish of couscous. 5 July is Independence Day, the anniversary of independence from France in 1962, with flags, 🎆 fireworks and 💚🤍❤️ everywhere; 1 November marks the start of the war of independence in 1954.

Algerian food, football and music emoji

There is no couscous emoji, so Algerians use 🍲 or 🥘 for it and for the other dishes of the table: chorba, chakchouka, tajines and stews. Couscous was inscribed by UNESCO in 2020 as the shared heritage of Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. 🫓 is kesra or matlouh, the round flatbread of home kitchens, and 🥖 the baguette bought fresh every day. 🌴 stands for dates, above all the Deglet Nour of Biskra and Tolga, 🫒 for the olives and olive oil of Kabylie, 🍊 for oranges and clementines, and ☕🫖 for coffee in the city and mint tea in the Sahara.

⚽ is the national passion. The Fennecs won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1990 and 2019 🏆, beat West Germany at the 1982 World Cup, and every win brings whole cities into the streets chanting One, two, three, viva l'Algérie! Olympic gold 🥇 came first on the track 🏃, with Hassiba Boulmerka (1992), Noureddine Morceli (1996) and Taoufik Makhloufi (2012) in the 1500 m, and in 2024 in the ring 🥊 with Imane Khelif and on the uneven bars 🤸 with Kaylia Nemour.

For music, 🎤🎶 is raï, born in Oran and carried around the world by Khaled and others, and inscribed by UNESCO in 2022. 🪕 fits chaabi, the music of the Casbah of Algiers, whose orchestras play the mandole and the banjo, and 🪘 the derbouka and other hand drums of weddings and parties.

Algeria in places: Sahara, mountains, coast and cities

Algeria is the largest country in Africa 🌍, and most of it is the Sahara 🏜️: dunes, oases with palms 🌴, camels 🐪 and the volcanic Hoggar mountains ⛰️ around Tamanrasset, with the rock paintings of Tassili n'Ajjer. In the north the Djurdjura range of Kabylie is white with snow in winter 🏔️, and the Mediterranean coast 🏖️🌊 runs from Oran past Algiers to Annaba.

🏙️ is Algiers, called El Bahdja, the joyful, and Alger la Blanche for its white buildings above the bay, with its Casbah and the Great Mosque whose minaret is the tallest in the world. 🌉 is Constantine, the city of bridges, strung across the gorge of the Rhumel, and 🏛️ the Roman cities of Timgad, Djémila and Tipasa, all UNESCO World Heritage Sites. 🐎 recalls the Barb horse of the fantasia and of the studs of Tiaret, 🐒 the Barbary macaques of the northern forests, and 🛢️ the oil and natural gas the economy runs on.

Algeria symbols: the dinar (DA, دج) and how to type Arabic, Kabyle and ⵣ

The Algerian dinar (DZD) has no currency sign of its own in Unicode. Prices are written DA, from dinar algérien, as in 500 DA, or in Arabic دج, the letters dal and jim, so 🪙 💰 💱 are the emoji people use for money talk.

Algeria's official languages are Arabic and Tamazight. Daily life is mostly in Algerian Arabic, Darja, which CLDR estimates is spoken by about 39 million of Algeria's roughly 47 million people; Kabyle, the largest Tamazight language, by about 3.7 million by the same estimate; and French, still common in business, media and on shop signs, by about 15.5 million. Arabic has 28 letters written right to left (ا ب ت ث … ي) plus hamza ء and its seats أ إ ؤ ئ, alif madda آ, and final letters ة ى. Like the rest of the Maghreb, Algeria writes its numbers with the digits 0–9, not the ٠١٢٣ used further east. Online, Darja is often typed in Latin letters with digits for sounds Latin lacks: 3 for ع, 7 for ح, 9 for ق, as in sa7a or 3lach.

Kabyle is written in the Latin alphabet with ten extra letters: č ḍ ɛ ǧ ɣ ḥ ṛ ṣ ṭ ẓ; ɛ is the sound of Arabic ع and ɣ that of غ, while the dots under ḍ ṛ ṣ ṭ ẓ mark emphatic consonants. Tifinagh, the Tamazight script of ⵣ, appears on signs and logos. To type them on Windows, add the Arabic keyboard in Settings (Time & language), or in Word type a code and press Alt + X: 025B gives ɛ, 0263 ɣ, 2D63 ⵣ. In HTML, ⵣ is ⵣ. On a phone, add an Arabic keyboard, or a Kabyle or Tamazight one if your keyboard app offers it; or copy the letters from this page. For full alphabets see our Arabic, Algerian Arabic, Kabyle and French collections.