Tangerine Emoji

Food

A vibrant orange fruit with a rounded, slightly flattened shape and a single green leaf attached to its stem. The skin appears textured, mimicking the pebbly surface of a real mandarin or tangerine.

Usage Context

Used to represent healthy snacks, citrus flavors, or the fall harvest season. It is frequently sent when discussing vitamin C, refreshing drinks, or as a playful alternative to the 🍎 or 🍌 emojis. It can also stand in for the color orange itself.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial push to expand the food and produce category for global messaging apps. It gained popularity as mobile devices improved screen resolution, allowing for better representation of produce textures compared to early, simplified icon sets.

Details

Glyph

🍊

Unicode

U+1F34A

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f34a:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF4A;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Food

Subcategory food-fruit

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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