Bento box

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Shortcode: :bento:
Shortcode: :bento_box:
Unicode: U+1F371
HTML: 🍱
CSS: \1F371
JavaScript: "\u{1F371}"
URL: %F0%9F%8D%B1

What 🍱 means

A Japanese bento box with rice, fish and side dishes in separate sections. It means a packed lunch, a Japanese-style lunch, or neatly prepped meals.

Meal-prep posts, school lunches and Japan trips use it. It pairs with 🍙 or 🍣 and fits a lunch that looks organized and balanced.

People also use it for any divided lunch container.

Facts

Bento box 🍱 is an emoji in the food and drink category, under food asian. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :bento: or :bento_box:. People also look for it with words like “bento”, “box”, or “food”.