🍥 Fish Cake with Swirl

Unicode lists 🍥 Fish Cake with Swirl among the Asian dishes in the Food & Drink group. People send it when the subject is cake, fish, food and pastry. The keyword list continues with restaurant and swirl.

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+1F365.

• 🍥 on its own already flags the topic: cake.
• Fits messages about cake, fish, food and pastry.
• Often seen near 🍣 Sushi, 🍤 Fried Shrimp and 🥮 Moon Cake.

The pink spiral is narutomaki, a fish paste sliced into ramen. It is named after the tidal whirlpools of the Naruto Strait.

Outside Japan the sign is often taken for a sweet or an abstract spiral. Among anime fans it stands instead for the series Naruto – the same origin for the name, an entirely different reference.

• 🍥🥟 – Fish Cake with Swirl and Dumpling
• 🍥🥠 – Fish Cake with Swirl with Fortune Cookie
• 🍥🍢 – Fish Cake with Swirl plus Oden
• 🍥🍠 – Fish Cake with Swirl and Roasted Sweet Potato
• 🍥🍣 – Fish Cake with Swirl with Sushi
• 🍥🍜 – Fish Cake with Swirl plus Steaming Bowl
• 🍥🍤 – Fish Cake with Swirl and Fried Shrimp
• 🍥🍛 – Fish Cake with Swirl with Curry Rice

Easy to mix up with 🍣 Sushi, 🍤 Fried Shrimp or 🥮 Moon Cake. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.