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🍙 Rice ball
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🍙 Emoji meaning
Onigiri, nori, snack, hunger, craving for Japanese food.
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🍙 Meaning
“I've ordered Japanese food” or “I'm hungry!” Rice balls with edible seaweed leaves. Like rice crackers, they are part of the most popular Japanese food.
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Rice ball vs rice cracker; both small white rice-based snacks.
Same Shape
Rice ball vs fries; shapes can look similar in busy chat UIs, both snack-like foods.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Rice ball” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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+ food
In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
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- rice ball
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ rice ball
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ ball + Japanese + rice
