Symbols
104Click a symbol to copy it and open its page.
Flag & colours
๐ต๐ช is built from the regional indicator letters ๐ต and ๐ช; the hearts and dots spell red-white-red where flags don't show.
National icons
Money
The sol is written S/ (S plus slash) before the amount; dollars are common for rent and travel.
Letters
Spanish uses the acute, รฑ and รผ; Aymara writes long vowels with รค รฏ รผ; Quechua and Aymara share รฑ.
Punctuation
Andes, coast & Amazon
Food & drink
Music, dance & faith
Holidays & sport
๐ต๐ช on the world map
Peru flag emoji ๐ต๐ช: red, white, red
The Peru flag emoji shows the plain vertical red-white-red triband. The state flag adds the coat of arms in the white stripe, with a vicuรฑa, a cinchona tree and a cornucopia spilling coins, but the emoji, like most flag emoji, draws the simple version. A popular legend says General Josรฉ de San Martรญn chose the colours after seeing a flock of flamingos with red wings and white breasts on the coast; historians treat that as a story, not a record.
Behind the scenes is not one character but two regional indicator letters, and , the country code PE. Phones and Macs join them into a flag; Windows has no country flags in its emoji font and shows the two letters instead, which is why the Peru flag emoji can look like PE on a PC. When the flag will not show, Peruvians type the colours instead: or is a heart-and-dot version of the flag, common in comments during football matches and in late July.
Machu Picchu, Andes and Amazon emoji
There is no Machu Picchu emoji, so people build it: for the peaks, for sunrise over the citadel, for the llamas that graze its terraces, for the train up the Urubamba valley to Aguas Calientes and for the four-day Inca Trail. stands for the famous fitted Inca stonework of Cusco, for Vinicunca, the striped Rainbow Mountain, for El Misti above Arequipa and for the reed boats and floating islands of the Uros on Lake Titicaca, which Peru shares with Bolivia.
is the closest emoji to the vicuรฑa on the coat of arms and to the alpacas whose wool becomes Andean textiles. stands in for the Andean condor, the great vulture of the Colca Canyon. Sun with Face fits Inti, the Inca sun god, who is drawn in Peruvian art as a golden sun with a face.
The coast is desert: for the dunes of Huacachina and the Nazca plain, for the small planes that fly over the Nazca Lines (a hummingbird, a monkey and a spider are among the figures), for the Humboldt penguins and sea lions of the Ballestas Islands, for a surf coast with some of the longest left-hand waves in the world. East of the Andes the Amazon fills most of the map: , and for the pink river dolphins near Iquitos.
Peruvian food emoji: ceviche, pollo a la brasa, pisco sour
Ceviche is the national dish and has its own emoji recipe: raw fish cured in lime juice with red onion and ajรญ chili, served with sweet potato (camote) and big-kernelled Andean corn (choclo). Add and for seafood platters and pulpo al olivo, octopus in a purple olive sauce.
matters more in Peru than anywhere: the potato was domesticated in the southern Andes thousands of years ago, and Peruvian markets sell many native varieties in every colour. is pollo a la brasa, rotisserie chicken with fries; the rice that comes with almost every lunch; tamales and humitas; the stews and soups of the highlands. means chifa, the Chinese-Peruvian cooking that gave the country lomo saltado and arroz chaufa. is the nearest emoji to the cuy (guinea pig), a festive Andean dish.
Sweets: picarones, ring-shaped fritters of squash and sweet potato in chancaca syrup; suspiro a la limeรฑa; Peruvian cacao. Drinks: pisco sour, made with pisco grape brandy, lime, syrup and egg white; Inca Kola, the golden-yellow soda; a cold beer; highland coffee; mate de coca, the coca-leaf tea served to travellers against altitude sickness.
Peru holidays, music and sport emoji
Fiestas Patrias on 28 and 29 July celebrate independence, proclaimed in Lima on 28 July 1821; houses hang the flag and chats fill with and . Inti Raymi, the Inca festival of the sun, is re-enacted in Cusco every 24 June (). October is the purple month of the Seรฑor de los Milagros, the huge Lima procession whose devotees wear purple habits: .
is the marinera, the national couple dance performed with handkerchiefs; stands in for the cajรณn, the Afro-Peruvian box drum; for the quena and the zampoรฑa pan pipes; for mรบsica criolla and the small Andean charango.
is the national obsession; Peru won the Copa Amรฉrica in 1939 and 1975 (), and its 2018 World Cup place ended a 36-year wait. belongs to the women's volleyball team, silver medallists at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and to surfers such as Sofรญa Mulรกnovich, world champion in 2004.
Peru sol symbol S/ and the letters of Peru
Peru's currency is the sol (PEN), and its symbol is S/, a capital S followed by a slash, written before the amount: S/ 25.00. There is no single Unicode character for it, so type the two characters or copy S/ from the combos below. Older prices show S/. from the days of the nuevo sol, which replaced the inti in 1991 and was renamed simply sol in 2015. The name means sun, a nod to Inti. US dollars ( ) are widely quoted for rent, travel and big purchases, and street money changers () swap soles for dollars.
Spanish is spoken by most Peruvians (about 24 million in CLDR's estimate), Quechua by nearly 5 million and Aymara by around half a million, mostly near Lake Titicaca; Spanish is official nationwide, while Quechua and Aymara are official in areas where each predominates. Spanish brings รฑ, the acute accents รก รฉ รญ รณ รบ, รผ (as in pingรผino) and the opening ยฟ and ยก. Quechua uses รฑ too, as in Qhapaq รan, the Inca road network; Cusco-Collao Quechua marks ejective consonants with an apostrophe (p' t' ch' k' q'), properly สผ; Aymara does the same and writes long vowels with a diaeresis: รค รฏ รผ. See our Spanish, Quechua and Aymara collections for the full alphabets.
How to type รฑ, accents and the Peru flag
On Windows, hold Alt and type on the number pad: 0241 for รฑ, 0209 for ร, 0225 รก, 0233 รฉ, 0237 รญ, 0243 รณ, 0250 รบ, 0252 รผ, 0191 ยฟ and 0161 ยก; Peruvian keyboards use the Latin American layout, which has its own ร key. On a Mac with the ABC keyboard layout, Option + N then N gives รฑ, Option + E then a vowel gives the acute, Option + U then a vowel gives รค รฏ รผ, Option + 1 gives ยก and Option + Shift + ? gives ยฟ.
On a phone, long-press N for รฑ and a vowel for its accents. For the flag, open the emoji keyboard and search "Peru" (or "Perรบ"), press Win + . on Windows or Ctrl + Cmd + Space on a Mac, or just copy from this page.
How to use them
6 situationsClick to copyPeru Emoji & Symbols combos
15Worth knowing
- In the Last Supper in Cusco Cathedral, painted by Marcos Zapata in the 18th century, Jesus and the apostles sit down to a roast cuy (guinea pig), Andean food at the most famous table in Christian art.
- The International Potato Center (CIP) in Lima keeps one of the world's largest potato genebanks, with thousands of samples of native Andean potatoes, which is why is as Peruvian an emoji as .
- The sol is at least the second currency of that name: the 19th-century Peruvian sol was replaced by the inti in 1985, the inti by the nuevo sol in 1991, and the nuevo sol was renamed sol in 2015.
- contains no picture at all: it is the letters P and E from a special Unicode alphabet of regional indicators, which phones draw as a flag when the pair is a real country code.
Questions people ask
7Is there a Peru flag emoji?
Yes: . It is made of the regional indicator letters and and shows on iPhone, Android and Mac. Windows shows the letters PE instead because its emoji font has no country flags.
How do I copy and paste the Peru flag emoji?
Tap or click in the grid above and it is copied to your clipboard. Paste it with CtrlV, CmdV or a long-press on your phone.
What is the Peru emoji combo?
A popular one is , the flag followed by its colours. For travel people use (Machu Picchu), for food (ceviche) and (pisco sour).
Is there a Machu Picchu emoji?
No. People combine mountain, sunrise over mountains and llama, often with . mountain railway stands for the train to Aguas Calientes.
What is the Peru sol symbol?
S/, a capital S and a slash, placed before the amount: S/ 25.00. Older prices use S/. from the nuevo sol. There is no single Unicode character for it, so type the two characters.
What are Peruvian food emojis?
for ceviche, for pollo a la brasa, for chifa, and for Andean potatoes and corn, for picarones, for pisco sour and for Inca Kola. is the closest to a cuy.
What are the national symbols of Peru?
The flag , the coat of arms with a vicuรฑa ( is the closest emoji), a cinchona tree and a cornucopia, and the national anthem. The Andean condor , Machu Picchu and the cantuta flower are also widely treated as emblems of the country.
