Bento Box

🍱 Bento Box is one of the Asian dishes in Unicode's Food & Drink group. Typical contexts are bento, box and food.

🍱 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Food and Drink. The character has been part of the standard since 2010 (Emoji 0.6). Its code point is U+1F371.

• 🍱 works as a one-character reply when bento is the subject.
• Fits messages about bento, box and food.
• Often seen near 🍚 Cooked Rice, 🍙 Rice Ball and 🍘 Rice Cracker.

• 🍱🍚 – Bento Box and Cooked Rice
• 🍱🍢 – Bento Box with Oden
• 🍱🍠 – Bento Box plus Roasted Sweet Potato
• 🍱🍣 – Bento Box and Sushi
• 🍱🍜 – Bento Box with Steaming Bowl
• 🍱🍙 – Bento Box plus Rice Ball
• 🍱🍤 – Bento Box and Fried Shrimp
• 🍱🍛 – Bento Box with Curry Rice

Easy to mix up with 🍚 Cooked Rice, 🍙 Rice Ball or 🍘 Rice Cracker. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.