Oden

What 🍢 means

A skewer of oden pieces in simple shapes, such as konnyaku and fish cake, from a Japanese stew simmered in light dashi broth. It is a winter comfort food, often sold hot at convenience stores.

Japanese food fans and Japan travelers use it for oden itself. Elsewhere it often stands in for any food on a stick: kebabs, skewers or street-food snacks.

At small sizes it can look like a sweet; 🍡 is the dessert skewer.

Facts

Oden 🍢 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 :oden:. People also look for it with words like “food”, “kebab”, “restaurant”, or “seafood”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

food & drink · Unicode 6.0