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Rice ball emoji 🍙

Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F359

What 🍙 means

In Unicode's CLDR data, Rice ball 🍙 is tagged with these keywords: ball, food, Japanese, rice.

Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing ball or food in the emoji search brings up 🍙.

Rice ball 🍙 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 rice ball.

Codes for developers

Rice ball 🍙 is a single code point, U+1F359. 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 pointsU+1F359
HTML (hex)🍙
HTML (decimal)🍙
CSScontent: "\1F359";
JavaScript\u{1F359}
URL%F0%9F%8D%99
UTF-8 bytesF0 9F 8D 99

Names in other languages

The CLDR name of 🍙 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.

LanguageName
Englishrice ball
Portuguêsarroz japonês
Españolbola de arroz
Italianoonigiri
Françaisboulette de riz
DeutschReisbällchen
Türkçepirinç topu
Bahasa Indonesianasi kepal
Polskikulka ryżowa
Русскийонигири
日本語おにぎり
한국어삼각 김밥

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Questions people ask

What does the rice ball emoji mean?

Unicode calls 🍙 "rice ball" and links it with ball, food, Japanese, rice. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the asian food subgroup of food & drink.

When was the rice ball 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 rice ball emoji?

Any emoji picker finds 🍙 when you search for rice ball.

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