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🍡 dango Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste
Quick info
- Unicode
- U+1F361
- Shortcode
:dango:- Category
- Food & Drink
- Subcategory
- asian
- Added in
- Unicode 0.6
- Also known as
- hanami dango, rice dumplings, Japanese skewer
What Does the dango Emoji 🍡 Mean?
Three colorful rice-flour balls — typically pink, white, and green — skewered on a single wooden stick, the iconic hanami dango eaten during Japan's cherry-blossom-viewing season. The tri-color stack is one of the most aesthetic small foods in Japanese cuisine. Texters use it for Japanese-cuisine content, anime food references (dango shows up constantly in anime, particularly Clannad which featured a dango family song that became a major fandom meme), cherry-blossom-viewing posts, and travel-to-Japan captions during spring.
Hanami dango (the pink-white-green color combo eaten during sakura season) drives heavy springtime usage. Beyond Japan, the emoji represents Korean rice cake skewers and various Asian street-food round-snack traditions. Mitarashi dango (with sweet soy glaze), sweet-bean dango, and grilled dango content all pull it in.
Some users send it for cute aesthetic content thanks to the pastel-color stack. Clannad fans drop it constantly for the iconic "Dango Daikazoku" song reference. Added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010 from the original Japanese carrier set.
How to Use 🍡 dango Emoji
“Hanami dango under the cherry blossoms 🍡🌸”
“Dango daikazoku, Clannad will always destroy me 🍡”
Technical Details
| Unicode | U+1F361 |
| HTML Entity | 🍡 |
| CSS Code | \1F361 |
| Shortcode | :dango: |
| Keywords | dessert, japanese, skewer, stick, sweet, dango |
| Unicode Version | 0.6 |
Frequently Asked Questions
What does 🍡 mean?
It depicts Japanese dango (tricolor rice dumplings on a stick) and is used for Japanese sweets, hanami, and Clannad references.
