🍚 Cooked Rice

The 🍚 Cooked Rice emoji belongs to the Asian dishes, filed by Unicode under Food & Drink. It usually appears in messages about cooked, food and rice.

You can drop 🍚 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Food and Drink. It joined the standard with Emoji 0.6 in 2010, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F35A.

• 🍚 on its own already flags the topic: cooked.
• Fits messages about cooked, food and rice.
• Often seen near 🍙 Rice Ball, 🍛 Curry Rice and 🍘 Rice Cracker.

Rice feeds more than half of humanity. In Japan gohan means both “cooked rice” and “meal”. Standing chopsticks upright in the bowl is strictly taboo: that is how rice is offered to the dead.

In Indonesia and the Philippines it is considered rude to leave rice uneaten. Rice thrown at weddings stands in many cultures for fertility and prosperity.

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

Easy to mix up with 🍙 Rice Ball, 🍛 Curry Rice 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.