🍙Rice Ball Emoji
Generally, the 🍙 emoji just means a rice ball. It’s often used to represent the food itself or to talk about Japanese cuisine.
The 🍙 emoji represents a rice ball, specifically onigiri.
- Unicode
- U+1F359
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :rice_ball:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍙 Rice Ball emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
Rice Ball emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F359 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your rice ball looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Rice Ball emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :rice_ball:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F359.
How to type the 🍙 Rice Ball emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F359 when there is no key at all.
Rice Ball emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the rice ball as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Rice Ball emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around rice ball for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🍙, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🍙 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🍙 means in other countries
Reads as onigiri specifically to anyone familiar with Japanese food, otherwise just registers as “rice snack.”
A convenience-store staple and packed-lunch item, tied to everyday routine, not celebration.
Often unfamiliar, read generically as a rice-based snack.
Before you send it: Use it freely; at most it signals a casual snack rather than anything more.
What 🍙 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F359, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🍙 vs 🍛 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Rice Ball
Code: U+1F359 · added 2010
Shortcode: :rice_ball:
Generally, the 🍙 emoji just means a rice ball.
Unicode name: Curry Rice
Code: U+1F35B · added 2010
Shortcode: :curry:
Basically, it means curry rice!
Where the 🍙 Rice Ball emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F359 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🍙 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E749, KDDI au E4D5, SoftBank E342.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Rice Ball was approved as U+1F359 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🍙 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.