Germany Emoji

The German flag emoji 🇩🇪 shows three horizontal stripes of black, red and gold (Schwarz-Rot-Gold). The colours go back to the democratic movement of the early 19th century and the 1848 revolution; the Weimar Republic adopted them in 1919 and the Federal Republic again in 1949. Fans who want the colours without the flag line up hearts 🖤❤️💛 or squares ⬛🟥🟨, a stack that also works as a small text flag.

Like every country flag, 🇩🇪 is not one character but two regional indicator letters, 🇩 + 🇪 for the country code DE (from Deutschland). Phones and Macs draw the pair as a flag; Windows has no flag pictures in its emoji font and shows the letters DE instead. The flag is still there: paste it into a message and an iPhone or Android user sees 🇩🇪.

The eagle 🦅 is Germany's national emblem, the Bundesadler, which appears on the coat of arms, in the Bundestag and on the national side of the German 1 and 2 euro coins. 🇪🇺 the EU flag belongs here too: Germany was one of the six founding members of what became the European Union. Searches for "germany symbols ww2" deserve a plain answer: publicly using or disseminating symbols of organizations prohibited under German law, including Nazi organizations, is generally a criminal offence, with exceptions for civic information, preventing unconstitutional activities, art, science, research, teaching, reporting on current or historical events, and similar purposes; this collection does not include them.

Germany emoji for food and drink

🍺 🍻 🥨 are the classic Germany food-and-drink emoji: a beer, two mugs raised for Prost! and the pretzel (Brezel), the twisted bread every bakery sells. 🍞 stands for the country's famous dark and grain breads. 🌭 does duty for Bratwurst and Currywurst, 🍖 for a roast pork knuckle, 🥔 for potatoes in every form and 🥬 for the cabbage behind sauerkraut and red cabbage.

🥙 is the döner kebab, brought by Turkish immigrants and now Germany's favourite fast food; Berlin is often credited with the döner sandwich as it is eaten today. 🍔 and 🌭 carry German place names in English, the hamburger after Hamburg and the frankfurter after Frankfurt.

Afternoon Kaffee und Kuchen is ☕🍰. Add 🍒 for Black Forest cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte), with cherries and cherry brandy. 🍩 is the nearest emoji to a Berliner, the jam doughnut, though a real one has no hole, and 🍪 stands for the Lebkuchen and biscuits of Christmas. 🍷 covers Riesling from the Moselle and Rhine valleys and the mulled wine of the Christmas markets, 🥂 a glass of Sekt.

Germany emoji for places, cars and football

Berlin has three emoji: 🏛️ for the Brandenburg Gate, 🧱 for the Berlin Wall, which fell on 9 November 1989, and 🐻 for the bear on the city's coat of arms. 🏰 is Neuschwanstein, the Bavarian castle built for King Ludwig II that inspired Disney's Sleeping Beauty castle; ⛪ fits Cologne Cathedral and the village churches alike. ⚓ is the port of Hamburg, 🏔️ the Alps and the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain, and 🌲🥾 the Black Forest and the German love of hiking (Wandern).

For the car country there is 🚗, 🏎️ for motor racing and 🛣️ for the Autobahn, where long stretches still have no general speed limit. 🚄 is the ICE high-speed train, 🚆 regional trains, and 🚆⏰ is how Germans themselves joke about late trains. 🚲 covers the cycling cities.

Football ⚽ is the national sport. The men's team has won the World Cup four times (1954, 1974, 1990 and 2014), which is why fans add four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐ above the badge, and the women's team won it in 2003 and 2007. 🏆 and 🥅 finish a match-day message. 🤾 handball is the second big team sport, and 🎳 stands in for Kegeln, the nine-pin bowling of countless pub clubs.

German holidays and the emoji people send

Oktoberfest in Munich began in 1810 as a royal wedding celebration and now opens in late September: 🍺🥨🎡 with 🪗🎺 for the brass bands in the beer tents. There is no dirndl or lederhosen emoji, so the beer, the pretzel and the fairground wheel carry the message.

Christmas is a season when many Germany emoji get sent. The decorated Christmas tree 🎄 spread to the world from the German lands, the Advent wreath with its candles 🕯️ was first made in Hamburg in 1839, and 🌟 is the paper star that hangs in windows. 🎅🎁 stand for the Weihnachtsmann and Christmas Eve presents; 🍷🍪 for Glühwein and Lebkuchen at the Christmas market (Weihnachtsmarkt). St. Nicholas brings treats on 6 December.

Easter is 🐰🥚: the Easter Bunny (Osterhase) who brings eggs is first recorded in Germany. Karneval or Fasching starts at 11:11 on 11 November and peaks before Lent with costumes 🎭 and parades 🎊🎉, greeted with Helau! or, in Cologne, Alaaf!. On Silvester (New Year's Eve) Germans swap good-luck charms with their 🎆 fireworks: the lucky pig 🐷, the four-leaf clover 🍀, the fly agaric mushroom 🍄 and the ladybird 🐞, with the wish Guten Rutsch!. 3 October, the Day of German Unity, marks reunification in 1990: 🇩🇪🧱 is a fitting pair.

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

German writes with A–Z plus four letters: the umlauts Ä ä, Ö ö, Ü ü and the Eszett ß (sharp s). An umlaut changes the vowel (schon "already" vs schön "beautiful"), and ß generally represents the voiceless s after a long vowel or diphthong (Maße "measures" vs Masse "mass"). The capital ẞ exists in Unicode and has been officially allowed since 2017, but most capitalised words still use SS. When no umlaut is available, write ae, oe, ue and ss. Switzerland does not use ß at all.

On Windows hold Alt and type on the number pad: Ä 0196, ä 0228, Ö 0214, ö 0246, Ü 0220, ü 0252, ß 0223 and € 0128. With the US-International layout type " then the vowel, and AltGr+S for ß; on a German keyboard the letters have their own keys and € is AltGr+E. On a Mac press Option+U then the vowel, Option+S for ß and Option+Shift+2 for €. On phones, long-press a, o, u or s. In HTML use ä, ö, ü, ß and €.

German quotation marks open low and close high: „so“, and ‚so‘ for a quote inside a quote. Books often use »so« with the points facing inward. On Windows, „ is Alt+0132 and “ is Alt+0147; on a Mac, Option+Shift+W and Option+[. German also capitalises every noun, which is why der Hund and das Haus start with capitals mid-sentence. The full alphabet, with what each letter sounds like, is in the German language collection.

Before the euro (cash since 2002) Germany paid in Deutsche Mark, written DM, which had no symbol of its own. Older signs survive in Unicode: ℳ, the old German Mark sign used before the Second World War, and ₰ for the Pfennig. People searching "german font copy and paste" usually want blackletter: Unicode has Fraktur-style letters such as 𝔇𝔢𝔲𝔱𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔡 among its mathematical symbols (see Fancy Symbols), though they have no umlauts.

Who speaks what in Germany

Germany has about 84 million people, and CLDR estimates that about 77 million of them speak German. Regional languages and dialects such as Bavarian and Low German are alive in the south and the north, and immigration has made Turkish, Russian and many other languages part of everyday life: CLDR puts Turkish speakers at about 2 million. Neighbours share the language: German is also official in Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Belgium. For Germany's western neighbours see the France, Netherlands and Belgium collections.