🍊Tangerine Emoji
Generally, the 🍊 emoji just means an orange or tangerine. It’s a simple way to represent the fruit itself.
The 🍊 emoji represents a tangerine or orange fruit.
- Unicode
- U+1F34A
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :tangerine:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍊 Tangerine emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
Tangerine emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F34A — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your tangerine looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Tangerine emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :tangerine:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F34A.
How to type the 🍊 Tangerine emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F34A when there is no key at all.
Tangerine emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the tangerine as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Tangerine emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around tangerine for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🍊, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🍊 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🍊 means in other countries
A plain citrus fruit most places, but oranges and tangerines are a genuine good-luck gift during Chinese New Year.
Gifted for luck and wealth — the word for orange sounds close to the word for luck or gold.
Just a citrus snack reference, used casually for flavor or health content.
Before you send it: A nice addition to Lunar New Year messages with Chinese friends; otherwise it just reads as fruit.
What 🍊 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the tangerine lands changes how it is taken.
Emojis similar to the Tangerine emoji
Same family (food-fruit) — often confused with tangerine or used alongside it.
Lime
🍌Banana
🍉Watermelon
🍇Grapes
🍓Strawberry
🫐Blueberries
🍈Melon
🍒Cherries
Collections 🍊 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
Where the 🍊 Tangerine emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F34A never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🍊 existed there as
KDDI au EABA, SoftBank E346.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Tangerine was approved as U+1F34A and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🍊 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.