During Lunar New Year, it casually nods to mandarin gifting and good-luck prosperity—no explainer needed. Sports fans and brand-minded designers use it to shout bold team colors, while meme crews pair it with Cuties callbacks, peel jokes, and “squeeze the day” zingers. The overall vibe stays wholesome and zingy with just enough irony to brighten the group chat without trying too hard.
Across the internet it also gets flirty (“you look like a snack”), tosses sarcastic shade at suspiciously orange spray tans, and leans into puns—orange you glad I texted?—served with a breezy sorry-not-sorry.
As an emoji, it’s the web’s petite citrus sidekick—smaller and cuter than a standard orange—built for fresh-start posts, healthy-snack flexes, and color-pop captions. On Apple/iOS it appears as a glossy, juicy sphere with a dimpled peel, a tiny brown stem, and a single bright green leaf angled to the right; there’s a soft top-left highlight and a warm, ripe gradient. No face, no fuss—just pure vitamin C energy. People drop it for meal-prep updates, farmers’ market hauls, orange-fit matches, “tangerine dream” aesthetics, and that sunny, citrus-core mood.
Definition
Officially a tangerine, but can also be used as a mandarin orange. Tangerines are smaller than mandarin oranges but can taste sweeter. Tangerines are a fruit grown in warmer climates and are pealed (removing the outer skin) before being consumed by humans. Eat some tangerines on a long voyage to avoid getting scurvy!
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
130 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:tangerine:
Keywords
Tangerine, Citrus, Orange
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Fruit and Vegetable Symbols
Editorial Comment
A mandarin orange fresh from the tree with a green leaf still attached. iEmoji old name: Mandarin Orange
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
Fruit Symbols
Names & Annotations
TANGERINE Temporary Notes: Mikan, Orange
Symbol Information
U+1F34A proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-052
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[みかん]
KDDI
#435 みかん 「mikan」 U+EABA SJIS-F38E JIS-796E
Softbank
#192 #old340 みかん 「mikan」 U+E346 SJIS-F9E6
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🍊
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🍊
Decimal HTML Entity
🍊
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🍊
Hex Code Point(s)
1f34a
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F34A
Decimal Code Point(s)
127818
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0x8A
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D 8A
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 212
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF4A
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf4a
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57162
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F34A
UTF-32 Hex
01F34A
UTF-32 Dec
127818
Python Src
u"\U0001F34A"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\x8a"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF4A"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
