A triangular mound of white rice wrapped at the base in a strip of nori, onigiri, the Japanese rice ball eaten with or without a filling tucked inside it. It's shorthand for Japanese convenience food and packed lunches specifically, a quick, portable bite grabbed from a konbini shelf rather than a sit-down meal.
What 🍙 means
A rounded triangular rice ball or Onigiri, made out of white rice and wrapped with a filament of nori in the lower half. The 🍙 Rice Ball emoji signifies Japanese authentic food, made with or without a filling.
How and when to use it
- Since 🍙 is one of the most common items on the menu in almost all Japanese restaurants around the world, this emoji can be used to indicate that you're ordering Japanese food or heading out to a Japanese eatery/restaurant.
- Similar to the previous point, you can also use 🍙 while texting someone that you had Japanese for lunch.
- Rice is a staple among many Asian countries. So, you can use 🍙 while generally referring to 'Asian food', 'rice', 'Japan', etc.
- Are you sharing a picture of your fluffy dog or cat? Do they look like cute little rice balls? Then too, you can use 🍙 in the post caption.
- If you're making onigiri for lunch/dinner and you're either texting your partner or your roommate, or anyone else you live with about it, then you can use 🍙 as a way of saying, "Tonight's Onigiri night! 🍙".
Other Names
- 🍙 Onigiri
- 🍙 Japanese Rice Ball
- 🍙 Triangular Rice Ball
- 🍙 Rice Ball With Nori
- 🍙 White Rice Ball
- 🍙 O-Musubi
- 🍙 Nigirimeshi
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-asian
- Codepoints
U+1F359- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:rice_ball:- Keywords
- ball, food, Japanese, rice
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🍙 Rice Ball or 🇸🇦 Flag: Saudi Arabia?