Symbols
100Click a symbol to copy it and open its page.
Flag & national symbols
🇦🇼 is the regional indicators A + W. ✦ is the closest text character to the flag's four-pointed star.
Florin & dollar
The Aruban florin (AWG) is written Afl. or ƒ and split into 100 cents; US dollars are accepted almost everywhere.
Papiamento letters
The accented letters Papiamento uses beyond plain A–Z.
Dutch letters
Dutch adds an acute for stress (één) and a diaeresis to split vowels (België, ruïne). The ij is typed as i + j.
Beaches & the sea
Desert, wildlife & outback
Aruban food & drink
Carnival, holidays & music
Sports
Island life & history
The Kingdom & neighbours
Aruba is one of four countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Curaçao and Bonaire are the other ABC islands, and Venezuela lies about 29 km to the south.
🇦🇼 on the world map
Aruba flag emoji 🇦🇼: how it works and what the flag means
The Aruba flag emoji is not a single picture in Unicode. It is two regional indicator letters, A and W (Aruba's ISO country code), which phones and apps draw together as the flag. Most country flags, Aruba's among them, arrived as emoji in 2015. On a system without flag support (Windows' own emoji font, for example) you see the letters AW instead; the text underneath is the same, so it still shows as a flag on the reader's phone.
The flag itself was adopted on 18 March 1976: a light blue field, two thin yellow stripes near the bottom and a red four-pointed star with a white border in the upper corner. The usual reading is blue for the sea and sky around the island, yellow for the sun and abundance, and the star for Aruba itself, its four points facing the four directions its people came from, red for love of the country and white for the beaches. 18 March is still National Anthem and Flag Day, when fills every feed. There is no red-star emoji, so people paste the flag colours as hearts , or use the text star for the star.
Aruba symbols: the owl, the divi-divi tree, cactus and flamingos
Owl stands in for the shoco, Aruba's small burrowing owl, which lives in holes in the ground of the island's dry interior and is one of its best-known bird emblems. is the nearest emoji to the divi-divi (watapana) tree: the constant trade wind from the northeast bends these trees so that they all lean toward the southwest, and they appear on postcards, logos and souvenirs as the picture of Aruba.
Cactus is no stereotype here. Outside the hotel strip Aruba is dry and rocky, with tall columnar cacti (kadushi, which also goes into a soup) and the protected landscape of Arikok National Park . Flamingo is the emoji of countless holiday photos, thanks to the flamingos that walk the beach of a private island off the coast. Lizard covers the island's many iguanas and its bright blue whiptail lizard, the kododo blauw, and and are the goats roaming the hills and the donkeys of the island's donkey sanctuary.
Beach, sea and wind: the emoji of an Aruba holiday
Eagle Beach and Palm Beach are among the island's best-known draws, so and (sunset over the sea) are popular Aruba emoji alongside the flag. Turtle belongs too: sea turtles nest on Aruba's beaches, and nests are marked off and protected each season. , and are for snorkelling and diving, and recalls the Antilla, a German cargo ship scuttled off the coast in 1940 and now one of the Caribbean's best-known wreck dives.
Aruba is windy all year, which makes , (kitesurfing) and (windsurfing) part of the island's identity. complete the beach look, and and the arrival, at the airport or the cruise pier in the capital, Oranjestad.
Aruban florin symbol ƒ, dollar and how to type them
Aruba's currency is the Aruban florin (code AWG), introduced in 1986 and divided into 100 cents. The Central Bank uses Afl. in its official publications; ƒ is also used as the florin sign, so a price can appear as Afl. 25 or ƒ 25. Unicode has no separate florin sign: ƒ is the character Latin small letter f with hook . The florin is pegged to the US dollar at 1.79 florins per dollar, and prices and dollar bills are accepted almost everywhere on the island.
To type ƒ: on Windows hold Alt and type 0131 on the number pad; on a Mac with a US layout press Option + F; in HTML write ƒ. On a phone it is easiest to copy it from the grid above.
Papiamento and Dutch letters: ñ é ë ï
Aruba has two official languages, Papiamento and Dutch, and most people also speak English and Spanish. Aruba’s Central Bureau of Statistics reported 109,435 residents at the end of 2025’s second quarter. Papiamento, a Creole language rooted in Portuguese and Spanish with Dutch and African influence, is the language of daily life; Aruba spells it Papiamento in a spelling close to Spanish, while Curaçao and Bonaire write Papiamentu in a phonetic one. See our Papiamento collection for the full alphabet.
Beyond A–Z, Aruba’s official Papiamento alphabet includes ñ, as in aña (year); grave-accented vowels and ü are not part of it. Dutch adds é for emphasis (één, one), the diaeresis in ë and ï to start a new syllable (België, ruïne), and the ij, which is typed as plain i j; the Dutch collection covers it all.
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0232 for è, 0252 ü, 0241 ñ, 0233 é, 0235 ë, 0239 ï (capitals: È 0200, Ü 0220, Ñ 0209). On a Mac press Option + ` then the vowel for the grave, Option + U then the vowel for the diaeresis, Option + E for the acute and Option + N then n for ñ. On a phone, long-press the plain letter.
Aruba holidays and the emoji people send
Carnival is the island's biggest party: weeks of events with feathered costumes, road marches and steel-pan and brass bands, ending in the Grand Parades of San Nicolas and Oranjestad before Lent; is its emoji set. On Dera Gai, St John's Day (24 June), people sing and dance for the old harvest game of "burying the rooster" , played today without a live bird.
Betico Croes Day (25 January) remembers the leader of the movement that gave Aruba its own status within the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 1 January 1986, and 18 March is Flag Day . King's Day (27 April) brings and , Christmas brings gaita music , and New Year's Eve ends in long strings of firecrackers called pagara and fireworks .
How to use them
6 situationsClick to copyAruba Emoji & Symbols combos
14Worth knowing
- Every divi-divi tree on Aruba leans the same way, toward the southwest, shaped by the trade wind that blows from the northeast almost all year.
- Aruba's famous Natural Bridge, a coral-limestone arch on the north coast, collapsed in 2005, yet the site and the nearby Baby Bridge still draw visitors.
- Aruba had a gold rush in the 19th century, and the stone ruins of the Bushiribana and Balashi gold mills can still be visited.
- Aruba lies south of the usual track of Atlantic hurricanes and is rarely hit by them.
- Aruban licence plates carry the slogan "One happy island".
Questions people ask
8Is there an Aruba flag emoji?
Yes: . It is made of the regional indicator letters A and W and shows as a flag on phones, Mac and most apps; on Windows it may appear as the letters AW.
How do I copy and paste the Aruba flag emoji?
Tap or click in the grid above and it is copied; paste it with CtrlV, CmdV or a long-press on your phone. On a phone keyboard you can also search "Aruba" in the emoji panel.
What does the Aruba flag mean?
The blue field represents the surrounding sea. Yellow represents abundance, while the stripes denote Aruba’s free and separate position within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The red, white-bordered star represents Aruba; its four points refer to the compass and to the island’s people from around the world. Red also represents love of country and the former Brazilwood industry, and white the beaches and purity.
What are the national symbols of Aruba?
The flag and coat of arms, the national anthem "Aruba Dushi Tera", the shoco burrowing owl and the prikichi parakeet as its bird emblems, and the wind-bent divi-divi tree as the island's best-known image.
What is the Aruban florin symbol?
Afl. or ƒ, as in Afl. 10 or ƒ 10. The sign is the Latin small letter f with hook : Alt0131 on Windows, OptionF on a Mac, ƒ in HTML. Its currency code is AWG.
What emoji represent Aruba?
first, then for the beaches, shoco owl, divi-divi tree, cactus, flamingo, sea turtles, the wind and carnival.
What are some Aruba emoji combos?
for a beach day, for the flag colours, for sunset drinks and for carnival. More are in the combo list above.
What language do they speak in Aruba?
Papiamento and Dutch are the official languages; Papiamento is the everyday language, and English and Spanish are widely spoken. Aruba’s official Papiamento alphabet includes ñ; Dutch uses é, ë and ï.
