Austria Emoji

The Austria flag emoji 🇦🇹 shows three equal horizontal stripes, red, white and red (Rot-Weiß-Rot). The colours are documented since the 13th century, which makes them one of the oldest national colours still in use. Legend explains them with Duke Leopold V at the Siege of Acre in 1191: his white tunic was soaked with blood except under his belt. For the colours without the flag, people use hearts ❤️🤍❤️ or squares 🟥⬜🟥, which stacked one per line make a small text flag.

Like every country flag, 🇦🇹 is not one character but two regional indicator letters, 🇦 + 🇹 for the country code AT. Phones and Macs draw the pair as a flag; Windows has no flag pictures in its emoji font and shows the letters AT instead. Paste it anyway: an iPhone or Android user still sees 🇦🇹. Austria also has a federal service flag with the coat of arms in the middle, reserved for authorized users; the emoji is the plain triband everyone else flies.

The eagle 🦅 is the coat of arms of the Republic: a black eagle with a mural crown for the townspeople, a sickle for the farmers and a hammer for the workers. In 1945 broken chains ⛓️‍💥 were added to its talons to mark Austria's liberation from Nazi rule. 🇪🇺 belongs here as well: Austria joined the European Union in 1995. The edelweiss, the alpine flower on the Austrian 2-cent coin, is an unofficial national symbol, but there is no edelweiss emoji yet.

Vienna emoji: palaces, waltzes and the Riesenrad

Vienna has its own emoji set. 🎡 is the Riesenrad, the giant Ferris wheel in the Prater that has turned since 1897. ⛪ is St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom), with its patterned tiled roof in the heart of the city, and 🏰 is Schönbrunn, the Habsburg summer palace. 🏛️ fits the Parliament on the Ringstrasse, built in Greek style with Pallas Athena in front, and 🚋 the red-and-white trams of one of the largest tram networks in the world.

🐎 stands for the white Lipizzaner horses of the Spanish Riding School, bred at the Piber stud in Styria. 🐼 is for the pandas of Schönbrunn Zoo, founded in 1752 and the oldest zoo still open. For music, 🎼🎻🎹🎶 cover Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and the Strauss family; 💃🕺 is the Viennese waltz, and 👗🎩 the ball season of January and February, when Vienna holds hundreds of balls, the Opera Ball 🎭 at the State Opera the most famous of them.

🎨🖼️ point to Gustav Klimt's golden The Kiss in the Belvedere and to Egon Schiele. 🛋️ is the analyst's couch: Sigmund Freud worked for nearly fifty years at Berggasse 19. 💎 is for Swarovski crystal, cut in Wattens in Tyrol since 1895.

Austrian food emoji: Schnitzel, Sachertorte and the coffee house

There is no schnitzel emoji, so Austrians build one: 🥩🍋🥔 is a Wiener Schnitzel with its wedge of lemon and potato salad. In Austria the name belongs to breaded veal; the pork version is Schnitzel Wiener Art. 🌭 is the sausage stand (Würstelstand), and 🌭🧀 the Käsekrainer, a sausage with cheese inside. 🍲 is goulash, a Hungarian dish the Viennese made their own.

The Viennese coffee house is ☕📰: a coffee, a glass of water and the day's newspapers, for as long as you like; its culture is on Austria's national list of intangible cultural heritage. 🍰🍫 is the Sachertorte, chocolate cake with a layer of apricot jam, created by Franz Sacher in 1832. 🍎🥧 is Apfelstrudel, 🥞 the torn pancake Kaiserschmarrn, 🍩 the jam-filled Krapfen of carnival time and 🍪 the vanilla crescents of Christmas. 🥐 has an Austrian ancestor: the crescent-shaped Kipferl, which a Viennese baker in Paris made famous in the 1830s; French bakers still call such pastries viennoiseries.

From the regions: 🥟 for Carinthian Kasnudeln and dumplings (Knödel), 🎃 for the dark green pumpkin seed oil of Styria, 🌰 for the roasted chestnuts sold on winter streets. Austrian German has its own food words: a tomato 🍅 is a Paradeiser, a potato 🥔 an Erdapfel. To drink, 🍷🍇 is the Heuriger, the wine tavern serving this year's wine (Vienna is one of the few capitals with vineyards inside the city), Grüner Veltliner being the signature grape, and 🍺🍻 is a beer with a Prost!.

Austria emoji for the Alps, skiing and sport

About two thirds of Austria is mountains. 🏔️ is the Großglockner, at 3,798 m the highest peak, ⛰️🌲🥾 the hiking trails, 🏞️ the lakes of the Salzkammergut, and 🚠🚡 the cable cars that lift you up. 🚞 is a mountain railway, such as the Semmering railway of 1854, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 🧂 is salt, the old wealth of the region: Salzburg means "salt castle", and Hallstatt gave its name to a whole Iron Age culture through its salt mine. ♨️ covers the thermal spas.

In autumn the cows come down from the high pastures in the Almabtrieb, decorated with flowers and wearing big bells: 🐄🔔. In winter Austria skis. ⛷️🎿🏂 and 🥇 are the national sporting language: Austria has won more Olympic medals in alpine skiing than any other country, the Hahnenkamm race on the Streif in Kitzbühel is the most feared downhill, and Marcel Hirscher won eight overall World Cup titles in a row. 🛷 sledging and ⛸️ skating fill the evenings.

Football ⚽ is the most played team sport; Austria co-hosted Euro 2008 with Switzerland. 🏎️ is the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring in Styria and Niki Lauda, three-time Formula One world champion. 🎾 is Dominic Thiem, who won the US Open in 2020.

Austrian holidays: Krampus, Christmas and New Year emoji

On the evening of 5 December, Krampus comes with St. Nicholas: a horned, furry figure who rattles chains and bells to scare naughty children, and whose runs (Krampusläufe) fill Alpine towns. There is no Krampus emoji; people send 👹😈⛓️🔔, with 🎅 standing in for Nikolaus, who in Austria appears as a bishop.

At Christmas it is not Santa but the Christ Child (Christkind) 👼 who brings the presents 🎁 on Christmas Eve, under a tree 🎄 lit with candles 🕯️. "Silent Night" (Stille Nacht) was first sung on Christmas Eve 1818 in Oberndorf near Salzburg, to a guitar. On New Year's Eve Austrians trade lucky charms, the pig 🐷, four-leaf clover 🍀 and fly agaric mushroom 🍄, with Prosit Neujahr!; at midnight the Pummerin bell of St. Stephen's rings, the radio plays the Blue Danube waltz and people dance 💃🕺 between the fireworks 🎆🍾. On 1 January the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert is broadcast around the world and ends with the audience clapping along 👏 to the Radetzky March.

Easter is 🐰🥚 and the Easter fires of Holy Saturday; Fasching, carnival, is 🎭🍩 with costumes and Krapfen. 26 October is the National Day, marking the 1955 law on permanent neutrality, when 🇦🇹 and ❤️🤍❤️ go up everywhere.

How to type Austrian German letters Ä Ö Ü ß and the euro sign €

Austria writes German with A–Z plus the umlauts Ä ä, Ö ö, Ü ü and the sharp s ß, used as in Germany (unlike Switzerland, which writes ss): Grüß Gott, Österreich, Würstel. The capital ẞ has been allowed since 2017. On an Austrian keyboard, the same QWERTZ layout as in Germany, the letters have their own keys and € is AltGr+E. On Windows elsewhere hold Alt and type Ä 0196, ä 0228, Ö 0214, ö 0246, Ü 0220, ü 0252, ß 0223, € 0128; on a Mac press Option+U then the vowel and Option+S for ß; on phones long-press a, o, u or s. In HTML use ä, ö, ü, ß and €.

Quotation marks open low and close high, „so“ and ‚so‘, and books often use »so« pointing inward. Austrian German has its own words and greetings: Servus (hi and bye), Grüß Gott, Baba (bye), and Jänner for January. The euro € replaced the schilling, written öS, in 2002 at 13.7603 schillings to the euro; Austria's euro coins show alpine flowers, Mozart on the €1 and the peace campaigner Bertha von Suttner on the €2.

Austria has about 9 million people, and CLDR estimates that about 8.7 million speak German; most Austrians also speak a Bavarian dialect at home (Vorarlberg speaks Alemannic). Croatian in Burgenland, Slovenian in Carinthia and Styria and Hungarian in Burgenland are recognised minority languages, and bilingual town signs show their letters such as č, š and ž. The letters of each language are in the German, Bavarian, Croatian, Slovenian and Hungarian collections; for the neighbours see Germany.