🍙 Rice Ball Emoji

Technical Details

Name

Rice Ball

Short Name

:rice_ball:

Unicode

U+1F359

Unicode Version

1.0

Release Year

2010

Category

Food & Drink

Subcategory

Food Asian

Platform Support

Apple Google Twitter Facebook

Has Skin Tones

No

Platform Renderings

Unicode standard sample

Unicode

RICE BALL emoji in Apple's design style - Unicode 1F359

Apple Style

RICE BALL emoji in Google's design style - Unicode 1F359

Google Style

RICE BALL emoji in Twitter's design style - Unicode 1F359

Twitter Style

RICE BALL emoji in Facebook's design style - Unicode 1F359

Facebook Style

Gmail style

Gmail

SoftBank style

SoftBank

DoCoMo style

DoCoMo

KDDI style

KDDI

SVG Code

<svg width="128" height="128" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <text
    x="64"
    y="64"
    font-size="96"
    text-anchor="middle"
    dominant-baseline="middle"
    font-family="serif"
  >🍙</text>
</svg>

Emoji Meaning

Meaning

A rice ball, commonly known as onigiri or omusubi, represented as a triangular or oval-shaped ball made from white rice, often wrapped in a strip of seaweed. It is a popular snack in Japanese cuisine, sometimes filled with various ingredients like fish or pickled vegetables. This emoji symbolizes Japanese food culture and can be used to represent a snack or a meal.

Common Uses

  • Referring to a specific Japanese snack: 'I love onigiri 🍙 for a quick snack.'
  • Indicating a meal or dish: 'Today's lunch is 🍙 with salmon.'
  • Representing Japanese cuisine: 'Let's have some 🍙 for a taste of Japan.'

Example Sentences

  • For lunch, I had a delicious 🍙 filled with pickled plum.
  • Dear colleagues, please remember to bring your 🍙 for the Japanese food day.
  • I can't wait to try the 🍙 at the new sushi place downtown!

Frequently Asked Questions