Rice ball

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Shortcode: :rice_ball:
Unicode: U+1F359
HTML: 🍙
CSS: \1F359
JavaScript: "\u{1F359}"
URL: %F0%9F%8D%99

What 🍙 means

A triangle of white rice wrapped in a band of seaweed: an onigiri. It means a simple Japanese snack or lunch, the kind sold in convenience stores all over Japan.

Anime fans, lunch posts and Japan trips use it with 🍱 or 🇯🇵. It also suits picnic food and quick meals on the go.

Do not confuse it with 🍘, a rice cracker, or 🍚, a plain bowl of cooked rice.

Facts

Rice ball 🍙 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 :rice_ball:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “ball”, “food”, or “rice”.