Try Cooked Rice emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Cooked Rice emoji mean?
A bowl of white rice, for East Asian meals and everyday dinners.
Plain and central. It is the base of a meal rather than the point of one.
How to use 🍚 naturally
Cooking posts, takeaway photos and meal prep.
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, Cooked Rice 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 bowl heaped with rice, from the carrier set where Japanese meals were everyday subjects. It is the plainest food character Unicode encodes, and one of the most used.
- Today
How its use evolved
Cooking posts, takeaway photos and meal prep.
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.
Three portions in the freezer 🍚
Curry night, finally 🍚
Rice cooker was the best purchase of the year 🍚
When to use it
Using 🍚 clearly
Cooking posts, takeaway photos and meal prep. It lands as rice emoji or 🍚 meaning 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 cooked rice emoji
What does 🍚 mean in a text message?
A bowl of white rice, for East Asian meals and everyday dinners. Plain and central. It is the base of a meal rather than the point of one.
Is 🍚 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are rice emoji, 🍚 meaning, bowl emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍚 look different on another device?
U+1F35A 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 cooked rice 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 cooked rice 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+1F35A | 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 | \1F35A | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F35A} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%9A | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F35A
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- rice emoji🍚 meaningbowl emoji
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