U+1F359 "🍙" Rice Ball Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🍙
U+1F359 "🍙" Rice Ball is a pictographic representation of a triangular or cylindrical shaped Japanese rice ball, often wrapped in a sheet of nori seaweed. Commonly known as onigiri in Japanese cuisine, this emoji depicts a simple yet iconic food item frequently filled with pickled plum, salmon, or other savory ingredients. It is used in digital communication to signify Japanese food, a quick meal, comfort food, or the act of eating lunch, and it belongs to the "food and drink" category within the Unicode standard, conveying cultural concepts of convenience and tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F359 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Rice Ball |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🍙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🍙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F359 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf59 |