Jordan Emoji

🇯🇴 the Jordan flag emoji has three horizontal stripes, black, white and green, and a red triangle at the pole side carrying a white seven-pointed star. Like every country flag emoji it is not a picture stored in Unicode but two regional indicator symbols, 🇯 and 🇴, for Jordan's country code JO, which phones and Macs join into the flag. Windows has no flag pictures in its emoji font, so there you see the letters JO, while the person you send them to still sees the flag on their phone.

The colours come from the flag of the Arab Revolt of 1916, led against Ottoman rule by Sharif Hussein of Mecca, the great-great-grandfather of today's King Abdullah II: black for the Abbasid caliphate, white for the Umayyads, green for the Fatimids and red for the Hashemites, Jordan's royal family. The flag in its current form was endorsed in 1922 and officially adopted in 1928; its seven-pointed star represents the seven verses of Al-Fatiha, the opening chapter of the Quran. Unicode has no seven-pointed star, so where flag emoji don't show, people write the flag in its colours, 🖤🤍💚❤️ or ⬛⬜🟩🟥, in the order of the stripes and the triangle.

👑 is for the Hashemite Kingdom, ruled by King Abdullah II since 1999, and 🦅 for the eagle on Jordan's coat of arms. 🪻 is the nearest emoji to the black iris, Jordan's national flower, a very dark purple iris that blooms in spring. The country takes its name from the Jordan River, and by CLDR's estimate about 11 million people live there.

Jordan flag vs Palestine flag: 🇯🇴 or 🇵🇸?

The question people search most about the Jordan flag: 🇯🇴 and 🇵🇸 use the same Arab Revolt colours in the same layout, black, white and green stripes with a red triangle at the pole. The difference is the star. Jordan's red triangle carries a white seven-pointed star; Palestine's is plain, so a "Jordan flag without a star" is the Palestinian flag. Sudan 🇸🇩 uses the same four colours too, but with red on top and a green triangle. If your screen shows letters instead of flags, JO is Jordan and PS is Palestine.

Jordan's neighbours each have their own collection: Palestine, Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦, Iraq 🇮🇶, Syria 🇸🇾 and Israel 🇮🇱, with Egypt 🇪🇬 just across the Gulf of Aqaba.

Jordanian dinar symbol: JD, JOD and د.أ

The Jordanian dinar has no currency sign of its own in Unicode. Prices are written JD in English (JD 5), JOD in banking, and د.أ in Arabic: dal and alif with hamza, short for دينار أردني (Jordanian dinar), with a full stop between them. To write it, copy د and أ from the grid and put a full stop between them; because Arabic runs right to left, د ends up on the right.

The dinar replaced the Palestinian pound in 1950 and is divided into 100 qirsh (piastres) or 1,000 fils 🪙, so prices often carry three decimals: JD 1.250 is one and a quarter dinars. Since 1995 it has been pegged to the US dollar at 0.709 dinars to the dollar, about 1.41 dollars to the dinar, which puts it among the most valuable currency units in the world. That reflects where the peg was set, not the size of the economy. 💰 and 💵 are the money emoji people put next to it.

Arabic letters and numbers for Jordan

Arabic is Jordan's official language. At home Jordanians speak Levantine Arabic, around 7 million of them by CLDR's estimate, but they write Modern Standard Arabic in the Arabic script: 28 letters written right to left and joined to each other, so a letter changes shape at the start, middle and end of a word. The grid groups the letters by shape: ب ت ث share one body and differ only in their dots, and so do ج ح خ, د ذ, ر ز, س ش, ص ض, ط ظ and ع غ. Hamza ء, the catch in the throat, usually sits on a carrier: أ and إ on alif, ؤ on waw, ئ on ya, and آ is alif with madda. ة (ta marbuta) ends most feminine words and ى (alif maqsura) ends words like على. Jordan in Arabic is الأردن, al-Urdun, written with أ.

The spoken dialect shows through when people write casually. ق is often a glottal stop in city speech in Amman and a hard g in Bedouin and village speech, and in chat many Jordanians write Arabic in Latin letters with digits for the sounds Latin lacks: 3 for ع, 7 for ح, 2 for ء and 5 for خ, as in 7abibi or ya3ni. To type real Arabic on Windows, add the Arabic keyboard under Settings › Time & language › Language & region and switch with Windows+Space; on a Mac add Arabic under System Settings › Keyboard › Input Sources; on iPhone and Android add an Arabic keyboard and switch with the globe key.

Arabic punctuation is turned to suit the script: the comma ، is upside down, the question mark ؟ is mirrored, and the semicolon is ؛. Eastern Arabic digits ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ appear on Jordanian banknotes and in Arabic text, and even inside right-to-left text a number is written largest place first, left to right: ٢٥ is 25, as in 25 May, Independence Day. For the vowel marks and the full alphabet see the Arabic and Levantine Arabic collections. English is widely used in business, universities and tourism; CLDR estimates around 5 million English speakers in Jordan, and English has its own collection.

Jordan emoji for Petra, Wadi Rum, the Dead Sea and Aqaba

Petra is the emoji most people want for Jordan, and there is no Petra emoji, so people build it: 🏜️🏛️ for the rose-red city the Nabataeans carved into sandstone cliffs about two thousand years ago, reached on foot through the narrow gorge of the Siq. Its most famous façade is Al-Khazneh, the Treasury. Horses 🐎 carry visitors along the path to the Siq, donkeys 🫏 climb the steps to the Monastery, and the stalls sell pottery in the Nabataean style 🏺. Petra has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985 and was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007.

Wadi Rum, the Valley of the Moon, is red sand and towering sandstone and granite mountains in the south: 🏜️🐪⛺ for a night in a Bedouin camp, 🐐 for the herds, 🌌 for the stars, 🚙 for the jeep tours and 🌄 for sunrise over the rocks. Bedouin cook zarb there, meat and vegetables buried in a pit of hot coals under the sand. The valley played Mars in The Martian and the desert planet Arrakis in Dune 🎬, and Lawrence of Arabia was filmed there before them.

The Dead Sea 🌊🧂 lies more than 400 metres below sea level, the lowest land on Earth, and is so salty that you float; people cover themselves in its black mud and watch the sun 🌅 go down over the water. At Aqaba, Jordan's only seaport, the Red Sea has coral 🪸, reef fish 🐠 and diving 🤿 a few steps from the beach 🏖️.

In the north, 🏛️ and 🎭 stand for Jerash, a Roman city of colonnaded streets and theatres where the Jerash Festival brings music and theatre every summer, 🏰🌳 for the Ayyubid castle of Ajloun above its oak woods and the Crusader castle at Karak, ⛰️ for Mount Nebo, where Moses is said to have seen the Promised Land, 🗺️ for the Madaba Map, a sixth-century mosaic map of the Holy Land on a church floor in Madaba, and ✝️ for the Baptism Site on the Jordan River. Amman 🏙️, the capital, spreads over steep hills with a Roman theatre in its centre and yellow taxis 🚕 in every street, and on the winter days when snow ❄️ falls, the city mostly stops and photographs it.

Jordan emoji for mansaf, coffee, football and holidays

Mansaf is the national dish: lamb 🍖 cooked in jameed, a sauce made from dried fermented yogurt 🥛, served over rice 🍚 on thin shrak bread 🫓, scattered with toasted almonds and pine nuts 🥜 and shared from one big tray, traditionally with the right hand. Maqluba, "upside down", is rice cooked with eggplant 🍆, cauliflower and chicken 🍗, turned out onto the tray in one piece. Breakfast is hummus, ful 🫘 and falafel 🧆 with bread, olives 🫒, and za'atar 🌿 with olive oil; galayet bandora is tomatoes 🍅 fried in olive oil. Ka'ak 🥯, sesame bread rings, are sold from street carts, shawarma 🥙 is everyday street food, and summer brings watermelon with white cheese 🍉🧀 and lemonade with mint 🍋🌿.

Coffee ☕ means qahwa: bitter Arabic coffee with cardamom, poured a little at a time into small cups, with dates 🌴 on the side; you shake the cup when you have had enough. Tea 🫖🍵 is drunk sweet, often with sage (maramiya) or mint. Knafeh 🧀🍯, soft white cheese under a crisp golden crust soaked in syrup, is the sweet people queue for in downtown Amman; qatayef 🥞, small folded pancakes filled with nuts or cheese, belong to Ramadan, and ma'amoul 🍪, cookies filled with dates or nuts, are baked for Eid and Easter.

Football ⚽ is the national game, and the national team is called النشامى, al-Nashama, roughly "the gallant ones". Jordan reached the final of the AFC Asian Cup in early 2024 🏆 and then qualified for its first FIFA World Cup, the 2026 tournament. The country's first Olympic medal was a gold 🥇 in taekwondo 🥋, won by Ahmad Abughaush at Rio 2016, and basketball 🏀 has a big following.

Independence Day on 25 May brings flags, car horns and fireworks 🎆🎉. Ramadan 🌙 ends with Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha brings the sacrifice of a sheep 🐑, and prayer 🕌🤲📿 runs through both. Christmas 🎄 is a public holiday, celebrated by Jordan's Christian minority in the churches ⛪ of towns like Madaba and Fuheis. Weddings and celebrations end in dabke 💃🕺, the line dance stamped out to a drum 🥁 and a shepherd's flute 🪈.