Dango Emoji

Food

A trio of round, chewy rice dumplings arranged on a bamboo skewer. The dumplings are colored pink, white, and green, replicating the traditional hanami dango enjoyed during cherry blossom viewing.

Usage Context

Used to represent Japanese street food, sweets, or festive spring snacks. Because the dumplings are on a stick, it is frequently confused with grilled items or snacks, though it pairs well with other sweets like 🍡 or tea-related emojis like 🍵.

History

Added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the dango was included as part of a push to represent regional Japanese culinary staples in the growing emoji library, reflecting the snack's cultural importance during seasonal festivals.

Details

Glyph

🍡

Unicode

U+1F361

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f361:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF61;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Food

Subcategory food-asian

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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

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