🍡Dango Emoji
Basically, it’s just a cute way to represent dango. People use it to show they're thinking about sweets or to add a playful vibe to a message.
The 🍡 emoji represents dango, which are little Japanese sweet dumplings on a skewer.
- Unicode
- U+1F361
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :dango:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍡 Dango emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
Dango emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the dango has been drawn in 4 ways.
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.
Dango 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 :dango:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the dango, code point U+1F361.
How to type the 🍡 Dango emoji
No picker to hand? The dango can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Dango emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Dango emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around dango 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🍡 means in other countries
Tied specifically to Japanese seasonal customs, especially moon-viewing and spring hanami gatherings.
Associated with tsukimi (moon-viewing) and hanami (cherry blossom) traditions, a seasonal treat.
Mostly known through anime, read as a cute snack without the seasonal context.
Before you send it: Nice touch for spring or autumn seasonal messages; otherwise it reads as a generic sweet snack.
What 🍡 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the dango lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🍡 Dango 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+1F361 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 EAB2, SoftBank E33C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Dango was approved as U+1F361 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.