🍚 cooked rice Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the cooked rice Emoji 🍚 Mean?

A small white bowl mounded with steaming white rice, often shown with a slight rise in the center — the cooked rice emoji is the universal symbol of Asian cuisine basics on the keyboard. Texters use it for any rice-based meal content: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, and Filipino cuisines all lean on it. Sushi-rice, jasmine-rice, basmati-rice, and sticky-rice posts pull it in for variety.

The bowl-of-rice emoji is so deeply tied to Asian cuisine that for many users it functions as a generic "Asian food" stand-in for the whole category. Korean rice-bowl content, Japanese gohan posts, Chinese fried-rice photos, and Indian biryani-and-rice captions all use it. Beyond literal rice, the emoji shows up in posts about "the rice bowl life" (Asian-immigrant family pride content), rice-cooker appreciation posts, and South Asian wedding-tradition content.

Some users send it in posts about being so hungry they could eat "just rice." Added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010 from the Japanese carrier set, this emoji has been carrying Asian-cuisine posts for over a decade.