🍣 Sushi

🍣 Sushi is one of the Asian dishes in Unicode's Food & Drink group. It usually appears in messages about 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+1F363.

• 🍣 on its own already flags the topic: food.
• Fits messages about food.
• Often seen near 🍢 Oden, 🍠 Roasted Sweet Potato and 🍤 Fried Shrimp.

Sushi does not originally mean “raw fish”; the word refers to the vinegared rice. The form known today, nigiri, appeared around 1820 in Edo as street food – a quick bite for tradesmen, not a banquet.

At the table: the fish, not the rice, goes into the soy sauce, and ginger is meant to clear the palate between pieces, not to sit on top. Standing chopsticks upright in rice is taboo – that is how bowls are offered to the dead.

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

Easy to mix up with 🍢 Oden, 🍠 Roasted Sweet Potato or 🍤 Fried Shrimp. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.