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Meaning & usage
What does the Mango emoji mean?
A ripe mango, for tropical fruit, summer and South Asian food.
Sweet and seasonal. In parts of the world mango season is itself the news.
How to use 🥭 naturally
Smoothie posts, summer cooking and mango season announcements.
Food and drink emoji are most often literal, but they also signal plans, cravings, celebrations and shared routines. Context is especially important when a food has a slang meaning in a particular community.
From standard to slang
The history of 🥭
- 2018
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Mango was first defined as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. The first release under the current annual numbering.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2018 with a red and yellow blush and a small green stem. The blush is what separates it from the peach, which is otherwise a similar shape at this size.
- Today
How its use evolved
Smoothie posts, summer cooking and mango season announcements.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🥭 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Season has started and I am unwell about it 🥭
Lassi, every single day 🥭
Bought a box, regret nothing 🥭
When to use it
Using 🥭 clearly
Smoothie posts, summer cooking and mango season announcements. It lands as mango emoji or tropical fruit emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the mango emoji
What does 🥭 mean in a text message?
A ripe mango, for tropical fruit, summer and South Asian food. Sweet and seasonal. In parts of the world mango season is itself the news.
Is 🥭 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are mango emoji, tropical fruit emoji, 🥭 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥭 look different on another device?
U+1F96D identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the mango emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🥭 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the mango emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥭 as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🥭 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F96D | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🥭 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🥭 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F96D | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F96D} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%AD | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F96D
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- mango emojitropical fruit emoji🥭 meaning
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