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Rice Cracker Emoji 🍘

A round, browned cracker wrapped partway in a strip of dark nori, senbei, the Japanese rice snack sold everywhere from convenience stores to tea ceremonies. It covers Japanese snack food broadly, a light, crunchy, savory bite rather than anything sweet or substantial enough to call a proper meal.

What 🍘 means

A round brown cracker made from rice and wrapped with a square greenish film; nori (seaweed) in the lower half of the cracker. The shade of brown of this emoji would vary across platforms.

The 🍘 Rice Cracker emoji refers to the traditional Japanese snack or quick bites. Apart from being a light, healthy (debatable), savory and sweet dish, it can also signify a tooth for Asian or specifically, Japanese food.

How and when to use it

Crackers are versatile snacks as they can be accompanied with a variety of toppings and seasoning. Hence, 🍘 can be used to refer to someone who always adds their own flavor to their work (not in a racist or derogatory way, of course).
Rice crackers or Senbei in Japan are both sweet and savory snacks that form the best tea-time side-dish, or rather 'green tea-time'. So, you can use 🍘 while greeting someone with "Good evening!" or even while calling over a couple of friends for a tea party.
In other general use cases, 🍘 can be used in captions while posting or reposting anything related to rice crackers. It can also be used to refer to any other cracker and not rice, specifically.
🍘 can be used in common themes such as 'snacks', 'evening snacks', 'Japanese food' as well.

Other Names

🍘 Senbei
🍘 Cracker
🍘 Rice Crackers
🍘 Snacks
🍘 Japanese Crackers
🍘 Senbei With Nori
🍘 Biscuit
🍘 Japanese Biscuit

The lowdown

Category: Food & Drink › food-asian
Codepoints: U+1F358
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :rice_cracker:
Keywords: cracker, food, 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.