Try Fish Cake with Swirl emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Fish Cake with Swirl emoji mean?
A slice of narutomaki, the pink-swirled fish cake from ramen.
Specific and decorative. Outside food posts it gets used purely for the spiral.
How to use 🍥 naturally
Ramen posts, Japanese food and anything that needs a spiral.
Food and drink emoji are most often literal, but they also signal plans, cravings, celebrations and shared routines. Context is especially important when a food has a slang meaning in a particular community.
From standard to slang
The history of 🍥
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Fish Cake with Swirl was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A white disc with a pink spiral, from the carrier set. It is named after Naruto's whirlpools, and the spiral is why it turns up in posts that have nothing to do with soup.
- Today
How its use evolved
Ramen posts, Japanese food and anything that needs a spiral.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🍥 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Ramen, extra of these 🍥
The swirl is the best part 🍥
Third bowl this week 🍥
When to use it
Using 🍥 clearly
Ramen posts, Japanese food and anything that needs a spiral. It lands as swirl emoji or narutomaki emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the fish cake with swirl emoji
What does 🍥 mean in a text message?
A slice of narutomaki, the pink-swirled fish cake from ramen. Specific and decorative. Outside food posts it gets used purely for the spiral.
Is 🍥 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are swirl emoji, narutomaki emoji, 🍥 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍥 look different on another device?
U+1F365 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the fish cake with swirl emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🍥 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the fish cake with swirl emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🍥 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🍥 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F365 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🍥 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🍥 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F365 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F365} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%A5 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F365
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- swirl emojinarutomaki emoji🍥 meaning
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