🍣Sushi Emoji
Generally, the 🍣 emoji just means someone likes sushi or is talking about sushi. It’s often used casually to express a preference for Japanese food.
The 🍣 emoji represents sushi.
- Unicode
- U+1F363
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :sushi:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍣 Sushi emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 1.
Sushi emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F363 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your sushi 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.
Sushi emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :sushi:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the sushi, code point U+1F363.
How to type the 🍣 Sushi emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Sushi emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Sushi emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around sushi 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🍣 means in other countries
Globally treated as shorthand for “Japanese food” in general, which flattens a cuisine that’s far broader than raw fish on rice.
A specific, technique-heavy dish with real etiquette — eaten in one bite, minimal soy sauce, no extra wasabi mixed in.
Often used loosely to mean “Japanese cuisine” overall, even when the actual food isn’t sushi.
Before you send it: Fine to send for the dish itself; just don’t use it as a stand-in for Japanese culture broadly.
What 🍣 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 🍣 Sushi 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+1F363 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
KDDI au EAB8, SoftBank E344.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Sushi was approved as U+1F363 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.