🍚Cooked Rice Emoji
Generally, the 🍚 emoji just means rice. People use it to represent the food itself, or to add a visual element to a conversation about eating.
The 🍚 emoji is pretty straightforward – it’s a bowl of cooked rice.
- Unicode
- U+1F35A
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :rice:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍚 Cooked Rice emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Cooked Rice emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F35A — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your cooked rice 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.
Cooked Rice 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:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F35A.
How to type the 🍚 Cooked Rice emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Cooked Rice emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the cooked rice 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
Cooked Rice emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cooked rice 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
Who sent the cooked rice and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🍚 means in other countries
A staple food symbol worldwide, but rice also carries prosperity and fertility meaning in wedding traditions in several cultures.
The default daily staple — its absence from a meal can read as the meal being incomplete.
Rice-throwing symbolizes fertility and good fortune for the couple, though it’s largely become symbolic.
Before you send it: Neutral for everyday food talk; works especially well around wedding or celebration messages.
What 🍚 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F35A, 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: Cooked Rice
Code: U+1F35A · added 2010
Shortcode: :rice:
Generally, the 🍚 emoji just means rice.
Unicode name: Curry Rice
Code: U+1F35B · added 2010
Shortcode: :curry:
Basically, it means curry rice!
Where the 🍚 Cooked Rice 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+1F35A 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 E74C, KDDI au EAB4, SoftBank E33E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Cooked Rice was approved as U+1F35A 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.