Rice ball Emoji

Food

A triangular piece of white rice wrapped in a dark strip of seaweed, commonly known as an onigiri. The shape mimics the classic hand-molded form found in Japanese convenience stores.

Usage Context

Used to represent Japanese snacks, quick bites, or light meals. It is a go-to icon when discussing takeout, bento box lunches, or authentic Asian cuisine. It is often grouped with other food icons like 🍱 or 🍣 to signal a mealtime theme.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, the rice ball was part of an effort to bring staple Japanese cultural foods into the global emoji set as smartphones became popular in Asia and eventually worldwide.

Details

Glyph

🍙

Unicode

U+1F359

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f359:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF59;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Food

Subcategory food-asian

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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