Oman Emoji

🇴🇲 the Oman flag emoji has a red vertical band at the pole and three horizontal bands on the rest, white at the top, red in the middle and green at the bottom, so the red forms a sideways T. In the top corner of the red band sits the national emblem in white: a khanjar, the curved Omani dagger, in its sheath over two crossed swords. Like every country flag emoji it is not a picture stored in Unicode but two regional indicator symbols, 🇴 and 🇲, for Oman's country code OM, which phones and Macs join into the flag. Windows has no flag pictures in its emoji font, so there you see the letters OM, while the person you send them to still sees the flag on their phone.

The flag was adopted in 1970, when Sultan Qaboos came to power; before that Oman flew a plain red flag. The colours are usually explained as white for peace, red for the battles fought against invaders, and green for the fertile land of the mountains. Where flag emoji don't show, people write the flag in its colours, ❤️🤍💚, 🟥⬜🟩 or 🔴⚪🟢.

🗡️ and ⚔️ stand for the khanjar and swords of the emblem, which Omani men still wear at the waist with the white dishdasha on formal days, and 👑 for the sultanate: Oman is ruled by a sultan, Sultan Haitham since 2020. Oman's official 2025 estimate put its population at about 5.36 million, on the southeast corner of the Arabian Peninsula between the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the Arabian Sea.

Omani rial symbol: RO, OMR and ر.ع.

The Omani rial has no currency sign of its own in Unicode, so there is nothing to type from a font: prices are written RO or R.O. in English (RO 3.500), OMR in banking, and ر.ع. in Arabic, short for ريال عماني (Omani rial): ra, a full stop, ayn and a full stop. To write it, copy ر and ع from the grid and add the full stops; because Arabic runs right to left, ر ends up on the right.

A rial is divided into 1,000 baisa 🪙, so prices often have three decimals: RO 1.250 is one rial and 250 baisa. The rial is pegged to the US dollar at about 2.60 dollars to the rial, which makes it the third most valuable currency unit in the world after the Kuwaiti and Bahraini dinars. 💰 and 💵 are the money emoji people put next to it.

Arabic letters and numbers for Oman

Arabic is Oman's official language and, by CLDR's estimate, the language of roughly 3.2 million of its people. Omanis speak their own Omani Arabic at home but write Modern Standard Arabic in the Arabic script: 28 letters, written right to left, with most letters joining and taking different shapes according to their position. 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 marks a glottal stop, a brief catch in the throat; ة (ta marbuta) ends most feminine words, and ى (alif maqsura) ends words like على. Oman in Arabic is عمان, ayn, mim, alif, nun; written with a vowel mark it is عُمان, and the Sultanate of Oman is سلطنة عمان.

To type 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 are common in Arabic text and on banknotes, and even inside right-to-left text a number is written largest place first, left to right: ١٨ is 18.

For the full alphabet with its vowel marks see the Arabic collection. Oman has long been a meeting point of the Indian Ocean: Baluchi is spoken by an estimated 190,000 people, mostly along the Batinah coast and in Muscat, and Persian by around 37,000; both are written in the Arabic script with a few extra letters such as پ and چ, and both have their own collections. In Dhofar and the far south people also speak Mehri and Jibbali, Modern South Arabian languages that are rarely written, and in the Musandam mountains a small community speaks Kumzari.

Oman emoji for kahwa, halwa, shuwa and food

Hospitality in Oman starts with ☕ kahwa, light Omani coffee flavoured with cardamom and often rose water or saffron, poured into small handleless cups and served with dates 🌴 and a spoonful of Omani halwa 🍮: a glossy, chewy sweet of sugar, ghee, starch, rose water, saffron and nuts, stirred for hours in big copper pots. Guests hold the cup out for more and shake it gently from side to side when they have had enough. 🍵 and 🫖 are for the sweet karak tea sold at roadside cafés.

🍖 is the emoji for shuwa, the dish of Eid: lamb or goat rubbed with spices, wrapped in palm or banana leaves and slow-cooked for a day or more in an underground sand oven, then shared by the whole village. Majboos is spiced rice 🍚🍛 with chicken 🍗, meat or fish and dried black lime 🍋‍🟩, the lime Omanis are famous for; mashuai is whole grilled kingfish 🐟 with lemon rice, and harees 🍲 is wheat and meat cooked to a smooth porridge for Ramadan. Khubz ragag 🫓 is the paper-thin bread baked on a hot plate, and in Salalah, green in the monsoon, roadside stalls sell coconuts 🥥 and bananas 🍌 straight from the farms.

Forts, mountains, sea and wildlife

🕌 is the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Muscat, opened in 2001, whose prayer hall carpet was hand-woven in one piece; 🎭 the Royal Opera House Muscat, opened in 2011 as the first opera house in the Gulf; 🛍️ the Mutrah Souq on the Corniche, smelling of frankincense. Inland, 🏰 stands for the forts of Nizwa, Jabrin and Bahla, whose fort became Oman's first UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987, and 💧 for the aflaj, the ancient channels that carry water from the mountains to the date gardens, a World Heritage Site since 2006. Dhofar's frankincense trees and ancient incense ports are listed too, as the Land of Frankincense.

⛰️ is for Jebel Shams, Oman's highest mountain at about 3,000 metres, and Jebel Akhdar, the Green Mountain, where terraces of Damask roses 🌹 are picked each spring for rose water. 🏜️⛺ are the dunes and desert camps of the Wahiba Sands, and 🌫️🌧️ the khareef, the summer monsoon that turns the hills around Salalah green and misty from June to September while the rest of Arabia bakes.

On the coast, 🐢 is the green turtle that comes ashore at Ras al-Jinz to lay its eggs, 🐬 the dolphins of the Musandam fjords, and 🐳 the whales of the Arabian Sea. 🐆 is the rare Arabian leopard of the Dhofar mountains. ⛵ stands for the wooden dhows still built by hand in Sur, 🎣 for the fishing boats, and 🤿🪸🐠 for the reefs of the Daymaniyat Islands. On land, 🐪 is for camel racing, 🐐 for the Friday goat market at Nizwa, and 🐂 for the bull-butting contests of the Batinah coast, where two bulls push head to head.

Oman emoji combos for National Day, Eid and football

National Day falls in late November, and Omanis post 🇴🇲❤️🤍💚🎆 with عيد وطني سعيد (Happy National Day), decorate cars and houses in the flag colours and fill the streets with flags. In Ramadan the greeting is رمضان كريم 🌙🤲, and Eid brings عيد مبارك, shuwa 🍖 and, at Eid al-Adha, 🐑. Traditional music is drums 🥁🪘, clapping and the sword dances in which men raise their swords ⚔️ in time.

Football is hugely popular: Oman ⚽ won the Gulf Cup in 2009 and again in 2017–18, so 🇴🇲⚽🏆 is the match-day combo. 🚴 is for the Tour of Oman cycling race, and ⛵ also for Oman's sailors. Neighbouring collections: the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪, Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦, Yemen 🇾🇪, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait.