Morocco Emoji & Symbols

🇲🇦 the Moroccan flag is the emoji Moroccans reach for first: for a match, a national day, a holiday photo or simply to say where you are from. Its red field and green star make ❤️💚 the colour pair of Morocco. The star is not a plain one: it is an interlaced green pentagram, the Seal of Solomon, which you can also copy as ⛤. Red is the old colour of the ruling dynasty, and its five points are often read today as the five pillars of Islam.

🦁 Lion is the Atlas or Barbary lion, the animal on the royal coat of arms and the nickname of the football team, the Atlas Lions (أسود الأطلس). 👑 Crown stands for the monarchy and above all for Throne Day on 30 July. Neither has a Morocco-specific emoji, so 🦁 and 👑 next to 🇲🇦 do the job.

ⵣ is not an emoji but a letter: yaz, the Tifinagh letter Z, which stands for the Amazigh (Berber) people and sits in red in the middle of the blue, green and yellow Amazigh flag. In the Souss, the Atlas and the Rif, and among Amazigh Moroccans abroad, it is the identity sign pasted into names, bios and posts. 🪬, the hand-shaped charm called khamsa or khmissa, is a familiar sign of protection on doors, necklaces and car mirrors.

Morocco flag emoji: copy and paste 🇲🇦, and why Windows shows MA

The Morocco flag emoji is not a picture stored as one character. It is two regional indicator letters, 🇲 and 🇦, the country code MA, which phones and Macs draw as the flag. Windows has no country flag pictures in its emoji font, so on a Windows PC the same emoji appears as the letters MA; copy it anyway, the person on a phone sees the flag. On Discord you can type :flag_ma:.

The flag itself dates from 1915, when the green star was added to the plain red banner Morocco had flown before. The Arabic name of the country, المغرب (al-Maghrib), means the west, the land where the sun sets, which is why 🌅 sometimes stands in for it. For the neighbours see our Algeria, Western Sahara, Mauritania and Spain collections, and every other country in Flag Emoji.

Moroccan symbols: Arabic letters, Tifinagh ⵣ and the dirham symbol د.م.

Morocco has two official languages, Arabic and Tamazight, and bilingual signage is being rolled out on public buildings: المملكة المغربية in Arabic and ⵜⴰⴳⵍⴷⵉⵜ ⵏ ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ (Tageldit n Lmeghrib) in Tifinagh. Formal writing uses Modern Standard Arabic, but what people speak is Darija, Moroccan Arabic, used by roughly 32 million people in CLDR's estimate. Online, Darija is often typed in Latin letters with digits for the sounds Latin lacks: 3 for ع, 7 for ح and, very Moroccan, 9 for ق. In Arabic script, the hard g of Darija and of Amazigh names is written ڭ or its look-alike ݣ, a kaf with three dots.

Tifinagh is the ancient Amazigh script in its modern standard form, set by IRCAM, the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture, and adopted for Tamazight in 2003; Tamazight became an official language in the 2011 constitution, and Tifinagh entered Unicode in version 4.1 (2005). It is written left to right; ⴰⵣⵓⵍ (azul) means hello. The spoken Amazigh languages of Morocco have collections of their own: Tachelhit in the Souss and the Anti-Atlas, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Riffian in the north, alongside Standard Moroccan Tamazight. To type Tifinagh on Windows, add a Tifinagh keyboard, listed under Tamazight in the language settings; in Word you can also type 2D63 and press Alt + X for ⵣ. Phone keyboards such as Gboard offer Tamazight layouts, or copy the letters from this page.

The Moroccan dirham symbol does not exist in Unicode as a single character. Price tags say DH (as in 20 DH), Arabic text writes د.م., dal and mim, short for درهم مغربي, and banks use the code MAD. A dirham has 100 centimes, and in conversation many Moroccans still count in older units: rials, twenty to the dirham, and big sums in centimes, so a car for one million usually costs 10,000 DH. French, spoken by about 13 million Moroccans by CLDR's estimate, is everywhere in business and on shop signs; see the French, Arabic and Moroccan Arabic collections for their letters.

Ramadan, Eid, Yennayer and Throne Day emoji

In Ramadan the fast is broken at sunset with the ftour: dates 🌴 and milk 🥛, a bowl of harira soup 🍲, and chebakia, fried sesame cookies soaked in honey, 🍯🍪. People wish each other Ramadan Mubarak 🌙🕌; 🤲 is a prayer of supplication, 📿 prayer beads, 🕋 the Kaaba for the Hajj. Eid al-Fitr, called Eid Sghir in Darija, brings new clothes and trays of cookies, and Eid al-Adha, Eid Lkbir, the sacrifice of a sheep, hence 🐏. A very Moroccan greeting for these days is 3wacher mbrouka (عواشر مبروكة). At Ashura children get small clay drums and tambourines, so 🥁 belongs to that day too.

Yennayer, the Amazigh New Year, has been an official public holiday in Morocco since 2024 and is marked on 14 January; people send Asggas amaynu (happy new year) with ⵣ and 🎉. The national days are 30 July, Throne Day (👑🇲🇦), 6 November, the anniversary of the Green March of 1975 into Western Sahara, and 18 November, Independence Day, which recalls the return of Sultan Mohammed V from exile in 1955; France recognised Morocco's independence in March 1956. Each brings flags on balconies, 🎆 fireworks and ❤️💚.

🕍 is there because Morocco's Jewish history is part of the country: mellahs, the old Jewish quarters, in Fes, Marrakech and Essaouira, pilgrimages to the tombs of rabbis, and Mimouna, the Moroccan Jewish celebration at the end of Passover. The 2011 constitution names a Hebraic heritage among the components of Moroccan identity.

Moroccan food and mint tea emoji 🫖🌿

There is no tagine or couscous emoji, so Moroccans use 🍲 and 🥘: for chicken tagine with preserved lemons and olives 🍋🫒, the Friday couscous after the midday prayer, harira, rfissa and the slow-cooked tanjia of Marrakech. Couscous was inscribed by UNESCO in 2020 as the shared heritage of Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and Tunisia. 🫓 is msemen, the folded griddle bread of breakfast, or the round loaf, khobz, eaten with every meal. 🐟 is the sardine: Morocco is one of the world's biggest sardine producers, and grilled sardines are the taste of the port of Essaouira and Safi.

🫖🍵🌿 is atay, mint tea: Chinese green tea brewed with a fistful of fresh spearmint and plenty of sugar, poured from high above the small glasses to raise a foam. It is offered to every guest, so 🫖 often simply means welcome. ☕ is the café on the corner, nous-nous, half milk half coffee. 🍊 is the fresh orange juice of Jemaa el-Fna and the clementines of Berkane, 🌵 the prickly pears sold from carts in summer, and 🌹 the damask roses of the Dades valley, picked for rose water and celebrated every spring at the rose festival of Kelaat M'Gouna.

🌳🐐 is the famous pair: the argan tree is native to Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and Western Sahara; goats climb into its branches to eat the fruit, and its kernels are pressed into argan oil, food and cosmetic alike. UNESCO listed the know-how of argan in 2014. Argan oil, almonds and honey ground together make amlou, another reason for 🍯.

Atlas Lions, Sahara and medinas: Morocco places emoji

⚽ is the national passion, and Dima Maghrib, always Morocco, is the chant. At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar the Atlas Lions beat Belgium, Spain and Portugal and became the first African and first Arab team to reach a World Cup semi-final; Morocco won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1976 🏆, its under-20 team won the U-20 World Cup in 2025, and the country will co-host the 2030 World Cup with Spain and Portugal 🇲🇦🇪🇸🇵🇹. Olympic gold 🥇 has come on the track 🏃: Nawal El Moutawakel and Saïd Aouita in 1984, Hicham El Guerrouj with the 1500 m and 5000 m double in 2004, Soufiane El Bakkali in the steeplechase in 2021 and 2024. 🐎 is the Barb horse and tbourida, the charge of riders firing their muskets in one volley, listed by UNESCO in 2021.

🏜️🐪⛺🌌 is the classic desert trip: the dunes of Erg Chebbi near Merzouga, a camel ride at sunset, a night in a camp under the stars. 🏔️ is the High Atlas, where Toubkal (4,167 m) is the highest peak of North Africa, ⛷️ the ski slopes of Oukaïmeden, 🐒 the Barbary macaques of the Middle Atlas cedar forests. 🏄🌊🏖️ is the Atlantic coast: surf at Taghazout, wind and kites at Essaouira and Dakhla, the beaches of Agadir. 💙 is Chefchaouen, the blue town in the Rif; 🕌 the Hassan II Mosque on the ocean in Casablanca and the Koutoubia in Marrakech; 🏙️ Casablanca itself, and 🚄 Al Boraq, which opened in 2018 between Tangier and Casablanca as the first high-speed train in Africa.

In the old medinas, ⛲ is the tiled fountain in the courtyard of a riad, 🧖 the weekly hammam with black soap and a scrubbing glove, 🏺 the pottery of Fes and Safi, the clay that tagines are made of. 🫏 is the donkey that still carries the loads through the car-free lanes of Fes el-Bali, and 🐈 the cats that sleep on every doorstep. 🌍 fits a country that faces Europe across the Strait of Gibraltar, only about 14 km wide at its narrowest. Music gets 🪘🎶: the guembri and iron castanets of Gnawa, listed by UNESCO in 2019 and celebrated each year at the festival of Essaouira, and the chaabi bands of weddings.