U+1F371 "🍱" Bento Box Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🍱
U+1F371 "🍱" Bento Box is a pictographic representation of a traditional Japanese single-portion takeout or home-packed meal, typically consisting of rice, fish or meat, and pickled or cooked vegetables arranged in a compartmentalized box. This character is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is widely used in digital communication to symbolize lunch, convenience, Japanese cuisine, or a balanced packed meal. Its design often features a rectangular container with a lid and visible compartments, though the exact rendering varies across platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F371 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bento Box |
| 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 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF71 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F371 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf71 |