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🍱 Bento box
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🍱 Emoji meaning
Japan, organized, food, portion, meal prep, deliciously prepared.
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🍱 Meaning
I brought something for my lunch break! Bento refers to a Japanese box with practical compartments. This way, lunch or dinner can be well prepared and transported. Can refer to Japan, food in general or the trend meal prep.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Bento vs pot of food; compartment box vs generic stew, both lunch/dinner meals.
Sushi vs bento box; both Japanese foods used broadly to represent Japanese cuisine.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Bento box” 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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- bento box
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ bento box
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ bento + box
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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- bento
