Honduras Emoji & Symbols

The Honduras flag emoji 🇭🇳 is not one character but two regional indicator letters, 🇭 and 🇳, for the country code HN; phones and apps that know the pair draw the flag. Windows is the usual exception: its emoji font has no country flags, so on a Windows PC 🇭🇳 may show as the letters HN. Nothing is lost, and the flag appears when the same text is opened on a phone or a Mac. There is no separate emoji for Roatán or the Bay Islands, so islanders use 🇭🇳 too.

The flag has three horizontal stripes, blue, white and blue, with five blue five-pointed stars arranged in an X in the middle. The flag was first adopted in 1866; its current star arrangement was set in 1949. The stripes come from the flag of the Federal Republic of Central America, and the five stars stand for its five members, Guatemala 🇬🇹, El Salvador 🇸🇻, Honduras, Nicaragua 🇳🇮 and Costa Rica 🇨🇷, and for the hope that they might one day unite again. The two blue stripes are usually read as the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the two coasts of Honduras, and the white as the land between them and the peace of its people. The shade of blue has varied over the years: flags have used both deep navy and turquoise; a 1949 decree specified turquoise, the state officially returned to it in 2021–2022, and in 2026 the new Congress began displaying navy blue again; the emoji's blue simply depends on the font of your phone or app.

The flags of El Salvador 🇸🇻 and Nicaragua 🇳🇮 share the same blue-white-blue from the old federation, but each carries a coat of arms in the centre; only Honduras has the five stars. A "Honduras heart flag" is either 🇭🇳❤️ or the hearts in stripe order, 💙🤍💙, or 🩵🤍🩵 for the turquoise flag; for bios and usernames 🟦⬜🟦 and ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ do the same job. Honduras celebrates Flag Day on 1 September, the start of the patriotic month that ends in the Independence Day parades.

Honduras national symbols and meanings: the macaw, the deer and the pine

The national bird is the scarlet macaw, the guara roja, red, yellow and blue, and the emoji for it is 🦜. Macaws fly free again over the Maya ruins of Copán, where carved stone macaw heads decorate the ancient ball court, so 🦜 is the emoji for Copán as much as for the bird. The national mammal is the white-tailed deer 🦌, and the national tree is the pine 🌲, commonly identified as the ocote pine (Pinus oocarpa), widespread in Honduras. The national flower is an orchid, Rhyncholaelia digbyana, with a frilled pale-green lip; there is no orchid emoji, so people describe it in words.

The coat of arms shows a triangle with a volcano 🌋 between two towers like little castles 🏰, a rainbow 🌈 and a rising sun ☀️ above them, set on land between two seas 🌊. Around it runs the inscription República de Honduras, Libre, Soberana e Independiente, 15 de septiembre de 1821, and below it stand pines and oaks and the tools of the mines ⚒️; Tegucigalpa began as a silver-mining town.

Hondurans call themselves catrachos and catrachas, a nickname usually traced to General Florencio Xatruch, whose troops fought William Walker's filibusters in Nicaragua in the 1850s. The national football team is La H or la Bicolor, so 🇭🇳⚽ and "¡Vamos, Catrachos!" are the match-day message, and 🥅 follows when the goal goes in.

Honduras currency symbol L and the Spanish letters ñ, á, ü, ¿, ¡

The currency is the lempira (code HNL), written with a capital L before the amount, as in L 500 or L500.00; in shops and ads you also see the abbreviation Lps. for lempiras. It replaced the peso in 1931 and is named after Lempira, the Lenca leader who led the resistance against the Spanish conquest in the 1530s; his portrait is on the one-lempira note. There is no lempira emoji, so 💵 stands in for money in general, and people often just say pisto.

Spanish is the language of Honduras, spoken by about 8.7 million people by CLDR's estimate, out of a population of roughly 9.9 million in 2024. Writing it needs the acute accents á é í ó ú, the ñ of hondureño and señor, the ü that keeps the u audible after g, as in Comayagüela, Tegucigalpa's twin city, and the opening marks ¿ and ¡. The accent marks the stressed syllable and often tells words apart: Copán and Roatán are stressed at the end, and papá (dad) is a different word from papa (potato). Hondurans use vos among friends (vos sos, "you are"), and everyday words like cipote (kid), pisto (money) and ¡qué macizo! (how great!) mark Honduran Spanish.

To type them on Windows, hold Alt and type on the number pad: Alt+160 á, Alt+130 é, Alt+161 í, Alt+162 ó, Alt+163 ú, Alt+129 ü, Alt+164 ñ, Alt+165 Ñ, Alt+168 ¿ and Alt+173 ¡. On a Mac press Option+E and then the vowel for an acute accent, Option+N then n for ñ, Option+U then u for ü, Option+1 for ¡ and Option+Shift+? for ¿. On a phone, hold the plain letter (a, n, u, ? or !) and pick the accented form from the pop-up. Honduras also has English speakers, about 42,000 by CLDR's estimate, mostly on the Bay Islands of Roatán, Utila and Guanaja, and indigenous and Afro-descendant languages such as Garifuna and Miskito; see the Spanish and English collections for the full alphabets.

Honduran food emoji: baleadas, plato típico and sopa de caracol

The everyday favourite is the baleada: a thick, soft flour tortilla folded over mashed red beans, crumbled hard cheese and mantequilla, the Honduran sour cream. In emoji that is 🫓🫘🧀, and a baleada con todo adds egg 🥚, avocado 🥑 or meat 🥩. The plato típico puts grilled carne asada 🥩 next to refried beans 🫘, fried plantain 🍌, rice 🍚, avocado, cheese, corn tortillas and chimol, a fresh salsa of tomato and onion 🍅🧅.

Sopa de caracol, conch soup in coconut milk 🐚🥥, is the dish of the north coast, and Banda Blanca's 1991 hit "Sopa de Caracol", built on a Garifuna song, carried its name around the world. 🍲 covers the other soups, such as sopa de mondongo. At Lake Yojoa people eat whole fried fish with lime and plantain chips 🐟🍋‍🟩🍌, and on the coast and the islands Garifuna cooks make tapado, a coconut seafood stew with lobster and shrimp 🦞🦐🥥, and coconut bread, pan de coco 🍞🥥.

Corn 🌽 runs through the whole cuisine, from tortillas to atol de elote and sweet corn tamalitos, and at Christmas families make tamales and nacatamales wrapped in banana leaves 🫔. Pickled chiles 🌶️ sit on many tables, and mangoes 🥭, pineapples 🍍 and bananas grow in the hot lowlands. Honduras is the largest coffee producer in Central America, with highland regions such as Marcala and Copán, so ☕ is a Honduran emoji too, and 🍺 is the cold beer that goes with a Sunday plato típico.

Honduras emoji for Roatán, Copán and the rainforest

Off the north coast lie the Bay Islands, Roatán, Utila and Guanaja: 🏝️🏖️🌴. They sit on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the second-largest barrier reef in the world, so 🤿🪸🐠 is the dive trip, 🦈 the whale sharks that pass Utila, 🐬 the dolphins, 🐢 the sea turtles that nest on Honduran beaches, and 🛳️ the cruise ships that call at Roatán.

Inland, the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve in La Mosquitia, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is one of the largest rainforests left in Central America: 🌳🐆🐒 for the forest, its jaguars and howler monkeys, and 🛶 for the dugout canoes that are still the main way to travel its rivers. 🦎 covers the iguanas and the spiny-tailed iguana found only on Utila, 🦋 the butterflies of the cloud forests. 🏞️ is Lake Yojoa, the country's largest lake, and ⛰️🌫️🌲 the cloud forests and pine-covered mountains of Celaque, La Tigra and Pico Bonito.

Copán, in the west near Guatemala, is the Maya city famous for its carved stelae and the Hieroglyphic Stairway, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage site too. There is no Maya ruins emoji; people pair 🇭🇳 with 🦜 for the macaws that fly over the site. And 🌧️🐟 is Honduras's strangest story: the Lluvia de Peces, the "rain of fish" of Yoro, where after heavy summer storms small fish are found on the ground, celebrated each year with a festival.

Honduras emoji for holidays, Garifuna punta and La H

Independence Day, 15 September, which Honduras shares with its Central American neighbours since 1821, is the biggest civic day of the year: schools march in parades with their drum and bugle bands and their palillonas, the baton twirlers, so 🇭🇳🎉🥁🎺 is the classic message. In October the Semana Morazánica honours Francisco Morazán, the Honduran general who led the Central American federation.

Holy Week, Semana Santa, is marked with processions ⛪🙏, and in Comayagua people spend the night before Good Friday laying carpets of coloured sawdust in the streets 🎨. On 3 February pilgrims honour the Virgin of Suyapa, the patron of Honduras, at her basilica near Tegucigalpa. San Pedro Sula holds its Feria Juniana in June, and La Ceiba's carnival in May is one of the largest in Central America, with floats, masks and dancing 🎭💃🕺. At Christmas 🎄🫔 come with fireworks and firecrackers 🎆🧨 at midnight on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

On 12 April the Garifuna, descendants of Africans and Carib-Arawak islanders who arrived on Roatán in 1797, celebrate their arrival in Honduras. Their punta rhythm, played on drums and maracas 🥁🪇 and danced with fast hips 💃🎶, became the country's party music, and Garifuna language, dance and music are recognised by UNESCO as intangible heritage. 🏺 is the Lenca pottery of the western highlands, around Gracias and La Campa. Football ⚽ is the national passion: the clásico between Olimpia and Motagua divides Tegucigalpa, and La H played at the World Cups of 1982, 2010 and 2014.