About Mango
Mango is the Unicode character 🥭 at codepoint U+1F96D in the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP).
Reference
A late arrival in an old subgroup. U+1F96D sits in Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs, dates from Unicode 11.0, has general category So and carries Emoji_Presentation. Its subgroup in the standard's test data is fruit, twenty fully qualified entries spanning five emoji versions: most of the drawer — the grapes, the melon, the banana, the pineapple, the apples, the peach, the cherries, the strawberry, the tomato — is E0.6, from the first wave, while this one is E11.0, the blueberries and the olive are E13.0, and the lime is not a character at all but a joined sequence added in E15.1. The chart gives it no annotation and no cross-reference; CLDR's keywords are food, fruit, mango and tropical.
Typical uses
- Food and cooking contexts, which the keywords lead with
- Tropical and summer settings, named directly in the keyword list
- Anywhere the fruit itself is meant — nothing in the data records a second reading
At a glance
- U+1F96D, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs; Unicode 11.0; general category So
- Emoji version E11.0; Emoji_Presentation, so no U+FE0F is needed
- No chart annotation and no cross-reference
- One of twenty fully qualified entries in the fruit subgroup
- No HTML named entity. Write 🥭 or 🥭
Historical Notes
Origins
Which fruits were encoded when, and what that says about who was proposing them, is a question about the proposal record rather than about the character data. The chart carries nothing on it.
Unicode
Added in Unicode 11.0, published in 2018, and shipped as emoji version E11.0. It went into Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs — 256 assigned characters, 242 of them emoji, no free positions — because the older block that holds most of the fruit had been full for years.
A subgroup that grew in four instalments
The fruit subgroup is a clean cross-section of how the emoji set has been extended. Fourteen of its twenty entries date from E0.6 or E1.0, the earliest waves; the kiwi came at E3.0 and the coconut at E5.0; this character at E11.0; two more at E13.0; and the most recent addition is a joined sequence rather than a new codepoint, made from an existing lemon and a green square. Same shelf, four different mechanisms and fifteen years between the ends of it.
Developer Notes
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How to Use Mango
To use the Mango symbol (🥭) in HTML, insert the
entity 🥭 directly into your markup. The decimal entity 🥭 works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\1F96D';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u{1F96D}' evaluates to 🥭. In Python source, write '\U0001F96D'.
The character encodes to F0 9F A5 AD as UTF-8 bytes and D83E DD6D as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 129389.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.
Things to know
- A 2018 character, so anything with a pre-2018 emoji font may show a missing-glyph box.
- Outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, so a surrogate pair D83E DD6D in UTF-16 and a naive character count of two.
- Not Emoji_Modifier_Base and not a variation-sequence base.
- East Asian Width Wide; line break class ID.
- Its subgroup contains at least one entry that is a joined sequence rather than a character, so a fruit picker built from the subgroup must handle multi-codepoint items.
- No named HTML entity. Write 🥭 or 🥭.
In the Wild
An encyclopaedia article on the fruit contains none of this character. Writing about a thing names the thing.
The character appears twice in CLDR's annotation data and twice as a cell in a block chart, in each case being defined. Not one of those is a person using it.
Pages change; this is what those showed on the day.
FAQ
Why did it arrive so late?
The data records when, not why: Unicode 11.0, in 2018. Most of the fruit subgroup dates from the first emoji waves eight years earlier.
Is there a second meaning?
Nothing in the chart or in CLDR's keywords records one. The four keywords are food, fruit, mango and tropical.
Which block is it in?
Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs, the same block as the robot and the nazar amulet.
Is there an HTML entity?
No named one. Write 🥭 or 🥭.