Bento box emoji 🍱
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F371
What 🍱 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Bento box 🍱 is tagged with these keywords: bento, box, food.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing bento or box in the emoji search brings up 🍱.
Bento box 🍱 is one of 17 emoji in the asian food subgroup of food & drink (132 emoji), next to 🍘 🍙 🍚 🍛.
Will 🍱 show on my friend's phone?
🍱 is one of the original emoji: it comes from the Japanese phone sets and is listed in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Every phone, computer and app shows it.
How to type 🍱
Any emoji picker finds 🍱 when you search for bento box.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type bento box.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type bento box in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type bento box.
Codes for developers
Bento box 🍱 is a single code point, U+1F371. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F371 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🍱 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🍱 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F371"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F371} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8D%B1 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8D B1 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🍱 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | bento box |
| Português | bentô |
| Español | caja de bento |
| Italiano | bento box |
| Français | boîte déjeuner |
| Deutsch | Bento-Box |
| Türkçe | bento |
| Bahasa Indonesia | kotak bento |
| Polski | pudełko bento |
| Русский | бэнто |
| 日本語 | 弁当 |
| 한국어 | 도시락 |
More emoji like this
All food & drink emoji →Questions people ask
What does the bento box emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🍱 "bento box" and links it with bento, box, food. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the asian food subgroup of food & drink.
When was the bento box emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the bento box emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🍱 when you search for bento box.