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The marks of states and public authority: national emblems and seals, government and official marks, and the symbols of civic institutions.
Here when the symbol represents a state or a public body. A flag element used heraldically is filed under heraldic; a party or movement symbol is political and social.
Officially standardised and culturally established together — most of these are defined in law and also carry a meaning the law does not mention.
All 154symbols in this domain, A–Z.
Black over red with a yellow disc at the centre.
A coloured band with a letter.
Three concentric circles.
A braided cord over the shoulder.
A black octagon: high in sugars.
A black octagon: high in calories.
A black octagon: high in saturated fat.
A black octagon: high in sodium.
Brazil's radio equipment approval.
Brazil's health product registration.
A wheel of curving rays.
A navy blue wheel with twenty-four evenly spaced spokes.
Coloured symbols carrying a letter or number.
A five-pointed black star on a gold band.
A seven-armed sun wheel.
A small emblem naming the trade.
A star-shaped shield with a blue sphere on a coffee and tobacco wreath.
A lens on a black bar.
A three-pronged arrow marking British government property.
A small charge added to arms to distinguish one son from another.
A red maple leaf with eleven points.
A rope drawn round a royal name.
A green cedar tree with horizontally layered branches.
A letter in a rounded badge.
A shield carrying a letter and number.
A single character opening every plate.
Pictograms standardised for public places.
Circles, triangles and rectangles by function.
A sixteen-petalled chrysanthemum flower seen from directly above.
An orange triangle in a blue circle.
Two hands holding a crowned heart, an Irish emblem of love and loyalty.
A coloured square carrying an age.
A picture naming what is in it.
An embossed or printed device making a document an official copy.
Venezuela's standards seal.
Vietnam's regulated-product mark.
A red and white chequered shield of twenty-five squares.
An opening word above the text.
An eagle with two heads facing opposite ways.
A wooden comb with a row of long teeth.
A stylised eagle facing left with a shield on its breast.
A letter in a bordered square.
A bearded figure rising from a winged disc with a ring in hand.
A stylised lily of three petals bound at the base, long used in French heraldry.
A standing cockerel, often crowing, with raised comb and tail.
A golden eagle bearing a shield of five symbols and a scroll.
A collar tab marking high rank.
An eagle with a shield, arrows in one talon and an olive branch in the other.
A continuous line folding back on itself at right angles.
A crane with a spray of golden feathers on its head.
A pair of interlocking spirals meeting in a knotted centre.
A crossed hammer and crescent-bladed sickle.
An outlined ear with a diagonal bar, usually with a 'T' in the lower-right corner — indicating an assistive listening system, and specifically an induction loop when the T is present.
An eagle marking national origin.
A gold crown with a visibly bent cross on top.
Brazil's national map vocabulary.
Bolivia's standards seal.
Colombia's conformity seal.
Colombia's map and cadastral legend.
A long thin country's map legend.
A warning about spending, not content.
Vienna shapes across an archipelago network.
Mexico's national map vocabulary.
Ecuador's standards seal.
Brazil's compulsory certification mark.
Costa Rica's standards seal.
A stylised white figure in a wheelchair on a blue square background, indicating accessible facilities.
Paraguay's standards seal.
Stacked stones in a rough human form with outstretched arms.
The Cree design, carried north.
Argentina's standards seal.
A gold harp with a straight forepillar and silver strings.
A lighter dashed line with a single dot.
A heavy dashed line with paired dots.
The lightest dashed administrative line.
Japan's agricultural standard mark.
Japan's industrial standard mark.
Korea's single safety mark.
A coloured badge with an age.
A coloured road surface bounding a school zone.
A plate naming a road and a side.
Circles, triangles and rectangles by function.
A single spiral based on an unfurling fern frond.
Korea's industrial standard mark.
Four lions standing back to back on a circular abacus.
A crowned lion holding a cross-topped staff and banner.
Rotation applied to Latin capitals.
Three armoured legs joined at the hip, bent at the knee.
A spiral drawn from a Nazca line.
An S certifying electrical safety.
A regional mark above the national ones.
A common plate format across member states.
A lion's head on a fish's body, spouting water.
Two joined loops on a flag.
An eagle on a prickly pear cactus devouring a snake.
A lane reserved for two-wheeled traffic.
Tiananmen gate under five stars in a wheat and rice wreath.
A stylised acorn marking a designated National Trail in England and Wales.
A letter and a number for a rank.
Rings around the cuff.
A revived script made official.
A zigzag line of sharp reversals.
Mexico's official standard mark.
A cross whose vertical arm is shifted towards the hoist.
Five interlaced rings of equal size, the emblem of the Olympic Movement.
Horizontal bands of red, black and green.
Three upright flower spikes above three paulownia leaves.
A coloured band carrying an age.
An official's hand-sign.
A soft conical cap with the tip folded forward.
Two columns wound with a scrolling banner.
A crowned white eagle with gold beak and talons on red.
A skeletal globe of intersecting rings on a stand.
Mexico's consumer protection mark.
A cloth badge for a demonstrated skill.
A ringed emblem marking a food whose name is legally protected by origin.
Japan's electrical safety mark.
Horizontal stripes in the colours of the spectrum, the flag of LGBTQ pride.
A red crescent on a white ground, protected under the Geneva Conventions.
A red cross on a white ground, protected under the Geneva Conventions.
A red square standing on one corner, on a white ground.
A red lion before a rising sun, a recognised but dormant Geneva emblem.
A red tractor in a flag device, certifying British farm assurance standards.
Cuts in an ear naming an owner.
A red paper or enamel poppy worn in remembrance of war dead.
A small metal mark on a ribbon.
Two overlapping squares forming an eight-pointed star.
A bird turning its head backwards to take an egg from its back.
Chile's electrical and fuel safety seal.
A mark for the earthquake warning.
Brazil's energy efficiency label.
A cross with four curved shapes in its quarters.
A three-leaved clover, the emblem of Ireland.
A stiff panel carrying the rank.
A fern frond with paired leaflets, shown in white or silver.
A column of signs on a flag.
Two fish flanking a boat.
A golden sun with a human face and alternating straight and wavy rays.
A circle divided by an S-curve into red above and blue below.
The flag drawn to a stated geometry.
Thailand's own digits.
Sign families following two conventions at once.
Three-line groups at the four corners.
Three gold crowns arranged two above one.
A geometric letter of dots and strokes.
Green, blue and black bands with a white headdress and star.
A calligraphic monogram with three tall vertical strokes and a looping tail.
Uruguay's standards seal.
A coloured disc carrying an age.
Vienna-derived shapes with local pictograms.
A clock, not a label.
A red dragon passant on a green and white field.
A square of forty-nine coloured squares.
A stylised bird of prey perched on a plinth with a chevron band.