Three balls, pink, white, and green, threaded onto a single stick, the classic hanami dango eaten while watching cherry blossoms in Japan. Japanese sweets and spring-festival imagery lean on it specifically, a soft, chewy rice-flour treat traditionally paired with green tea rather than a mug of coffee.
What 🍡 means
Three differently colored balls; pink, white, and green pierced through a wooden stick. The 🍡 Dango emoji signifies a traditional Japanese sweet dumpling dish made from rice flour and served in either threes or fives along with some green tea or matcha.
How and when to use it
- Since 🍡 consists of dumplings, it can be used to refer to the double bun hairstyle. So, if you're posting pictures of your own dumpling tresses or even a repost, you can use this emoji in such captions.
- Baring the previous use case in mind, 🍡 can also be used while sharing dumpling hairstyle/double bun hairstyle pictures or videos as a direct message (DM) or while commenting on related posts.
- Use 🍡 while posting or reposting authentic Dango pictures with or without the matcha.
- If you love Dangos, then 🍡 should be an emoji in your social media profile name.
- Apart from referring exclusively to the dish, the pretty pastels of 🍡 can be a great inclusion in themes such as carnivals, fairs, etc.
Other Names
- 🍡 Botchan Dango
- 🍡 Chichi Dango
- 🍡 Dango and Matcha
- 🍡 Dango and Green Tea
- 🍡 Kushi Dango
- 🍡 Dango in a Skewer
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-asian
- Codepoints
U+1F361- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:dango:- Keywords
- dango, dessert, Japanese, skewer, stick, sweet
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🍡 Dango or 🦠 Microbe?
Runs with a crowd
🍡 keeps company in hanami (cherry blossom) emojis and pink emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.