Dango

The 🍡 Dango emoji belongs to the Asian dishes, filed by Unicode under Food & Drink. People send it when the subject is dessert, japanese, skewer and stick. Further official keywords are sweet.

🍡 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Food and Drink. Added in 2010 with Emoji 0.6, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1F361.

• 🍡 works as a one-character reply when dessert is the subject.
• Fits messages about dessert, japanese, skewer and stick.
• Often seen near 🥟 Dumpling, 🥮 Moon Cake and 🍥 Fish Cake with Swirl.

Dango are rice-flour dumplings on a skewer. The three-coloured version – pink, white, green – is hanami dango and belongs to spring cherry-blossom viewing; the colours stand for blossom, snow and young grass.

Hence the proverb hana yori dango, “dumplings rather than flowers”: a jab at people who care more about the food than the trees.

• 🍡🥟 – Dango and Dumpling
• 🍡🥠 – Dango with Fortune Cookie
• 🍡🍢 – Dango plus Oden
• 🍡🍠 – Dango and Roasted Sweet Potato
• 🍡🍣 – Dango with Sushi
• 🍡🍜 – Dango plus Steaming Bowl
• 🍡🍤 – Dango and Fried Shrimp
• 🍡🍛 – Dango with Curry Rice

Easy to mix up with 🥟 Dumpling, 🥮 Moon Cake or 🍥 Fish Cake with Swirl. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.