Mexico Emoji & Symbols

🇲🇽 the Mexican flag is the first emoji people reach for: pride, a football match, a trip, or simply where you are from. Its colours work as hearts too, 💚🤍❤️, and three animals and plants from the coat of arms in its centre have emoji of their own: 🦅 the golden eagle, 🌵 the nopal (prickly pear) it stands on and 🐍 the snake in its beak. They retell the Aztec legend of where to found Tenochtitlan, today Mexico City.

🌮 Taco is the unofficial Mexico emoji, from the street stall to the family dinner. 🌶️ stands for chiles and anything spicy, 🥑 for avocado and guacamole (Mexico grows more avocados than any other country), 🌽 for corn, the grain Mexican cooking is built on, and 🫓 for the tortilla made from it. 🫔 Tamale, steamed corn dough in a husk, became an emoji in 2020 together with 🪅 Piñata, the papier-mâché figure filled with sweets that children break with a stick at birthdays and at the December posadas.

💀 Skull means two things here: the sugar skulls and painted calaveras of Día de Muertos, and the same "I'm dead" laugh it means everywhere online. 🤠 is the closest thing to a sombrero: there is no sombrero emoji, so people use the cowboy hat face or simply 🇲🇽 instead.

Mexican flag emoji: copy and paste 🇲🇽, and why Windows shows MX

The Mexican flag emoji is not a picture stored as one character. It is two regional indicator letters, 🇲 and 🇽, the country code MX, which phones and Macs draw as the green, white and red flag. Windows has no country flag pictures in its emoji font, so on a Windows PC the same emoji appears as the letters MX. Copy it anyway: the person on a phone sees the flag. On Discord you can also type :flag_mx:.

Mexicans fly the real flag on 24 February, Flag Day, and above all in September, the mes patrio, when houses, cars and market stalls are covered in green, white and red. For other flags, including 🇪🇸 Spain and the rest of Latin America, see our Flag Emoji collection.

Día de Muertos, Independence Day and other Mexican holiday emoji

On 1 and 2 November families build an ofrenda for their dead and visit the cemetery at night. The emoji for it follow the altar: 💀 for calaveras and sugar skulls, 🌼 for the orange cempasúchil (marigold) whose petals mark the way home, 🕯️ for the candles, 🍞 for pan de muerto and 🪦 for the graves decorated with flowers. UNESCO lists the celebration as Intangible Cultural Heritage. 🦋 fits as well: monarch butterflies arrive in the forests of Michoacán and the State of Mexico around the same time each year, and many people see them as the souls coming back.

Independence is celebrated on the night of 15 September, when the president rings the bell of Dolores 🔔 from the balcony of the National Palace and leads the Grito, "¡Viva México!", repeating Miguel Hidalgo's call of 1810; then come 🎆 fireworks, 🍲 pozole and 🇲🇽 everywhere. 16 September is the national holiday. Cinco de Mayo, the victory over the French army at Puebla in 1862, is a regional date in Mexico and a much bigger party in the United States.

On 12 December millions of pilgrims go to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City; 🌹🙏 recalls the roses of the story of Juan Diego. From 16 to 24 December come the posadas with 🪅 piñatas, the traditional one a star with seven points.

Mexican food, music and sports emoji

Beyond 🌮 and 🌯 (the burrito is a dish of the north and of Mexican food in the US), the food emoji people pair with 🇲🇽 are 🍋‍🟩 lime, squeezed on almost everything, 🫘 beans, 🍅 tomato, 🍍 pineapple for tacos al pastor, 🥭 mango with chile, 🍫 for chocolate, which the Maya and Aztecs drank long before Europe knew it, 🍮 for flan, 🍲 for pozole or caldo, and 🥃 for tequila and mezcal or 🍺 for a cold beer with lime. 🦃 belongs here too: the turkey was domesticated in Mexico and is the classic meat for mole poblano.

🎺🎻🎸 is a mariachi band in emoji (trumpets, violins and guitars), the music UNESCO recognised in 2011; 🪗 is the accordion of norteño music and 🪇 maracas join for anything danceable, with 💃🕺 for the dancing.

⚽ is the national passion: El Tri, the national team, plays at the Estadio Azteca 🏟️, the first stadium to host two World Cup finals (1970 and 1986) and the venue chosen to open the 2026 World Cup. 🤼 stands for lucha libre and its masked wrestlers, 🥊 for a long line of boxing champions, ⚾ for baseball, big in the north and in Yucatán, and 🏎️ for the Mexican Grand Prix in Mexico City.

Mexico symbols: the peso sign $ and how to type ñ, á and ¿

The Mexican peso symbol is $, the same character as the dollar. Prices in Mexico are written $150, and when it could be confused with US dollars people write MX$150 or 150 MXN. The ₱ sign belongs to the Philippine peso, not the Mexican one.

Spanish, spoken by about 110 million people in Mexico by CLDR's estimate, has one additional letter beyond A–Z: ñ (as in año, year, which is a very different word from ano). Acute accents on á é í ó ú mark stress (México, papá), and a diaeresis on ü tells you to pronounce the u in güero or pingüino. Questions and exclamations open with ¿ and ¡: ¿Qué onda? ¡Órale! For the whole alphabet see our Spanish collection.

On Windows hold Alt and type on the number pad 164 for ñ, 165 for Ñ, 160 á, 130 é, 161 í, 162 ó, 163 ú, 129 ü, 168 ¿ and 173 ¡. On a Mac press Option + N then N for ñ, Option + E then a vowel for á é í ó ú, Option + U then U for ü, Option + 1 for ¡ and Option + Shift + ? for ¿. On a phone, long-press N or a vowel. Keyboards sold in Mexico (Latin American layout) have their own Ñ key.

Spanish is not the only language of Mexico: the state recognises 68 indigenous languages as national languages, the largest being Nahuatl, spoken by well over a million people, and Yucatec Maya (Yucateco). Nahuatl gave English chocolate, tomato, avocado, chili and coyote.