Esperanto symbols

The traditional Esperanto symbol is a green, five-pointed star. It is often (often on a white background ) supported by Esperanto as a distinctive mark in the form of a small the badge. On the origin of this symbol Zamenhof wrote in 1911:

" At the birth of our Green Star I can not remember well myself. It seems to me that Mr. Geoghegan once made ​​me aware of the green color, and since that time I gave my writings in green envelope out. About a brochure that I had accidentally issued with green envelope, he remarked to me that it was the color of his home country, Ireland. It occurred to me that we can see this color so as a symbol of Esperanto. As for the fünfzackicken star, it seems to me that Mr. de Beaufront first printed him on his grammar. I liked that, and I took that as a sign. Afterwards appeared by association a star with green color. "

The association with the green color occurs as follows: Zamenhof had his language published under the pseudonym Dr. Esperanto, Esperanto is, who hopes. This name was later transferred to the language itself green is the color of hope and therefore of course also code for Esperanto.

In development of the Green Star and the Esperanto flag appeared. It consists of a green background, on which a white square is in the upper left corner with Esperanto star. The green of the flag is to symbolize the hope, the white of the peace and the five-pointed star represents the five continents. The format of the flag after a recommendation of the Executive Board of the World Esperanto Federal UEA 3:2:1:0,35 (: Height: white square: length of radius radius of the star ) is given. The shade of green has the CMYK color values ​​of 79 %, 22 %, 99 %, 5 % ( PANTONE 363 C).

The green also Esperanto Esperanto egg or anniversary symbol (Esperanto: Jubilea simbolo ) since it was introduced for the 100th anniversary of the language in 1987 by the Flemish Esperanto Association, is increasingly used as a recognition symbol of Esperanto. It represents two mutually Asked E, reminiscent in shape to a stylized globe. The Esperanto egg is preferably used of Esperanto, which hold the green star for misleading it because they so communism, anarchism, U.S. Army or Islamism associate (or fear, others might the associate ) is that it is because they have a star for keeping any. Quite often, but there are also the anniversary icon with a small Esperanto star in one of the E - bows or simply both symbols next to each other.

This emerged from the Esperanto reform project Ido used in a modification of Esperanto star a six-pointed star, which is no longer green, however.