{"id":7104,"date":"2026-05-25T06:57:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mojiedit.com\/emoji-directory\/rice-ball\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:57:36","slug":"rice-ball","status":"publish","type":"emoji","link":"https:\/\/mojiedit.com\/ja\/%e7%b5%b5%e6%96%87%e5%ad%97%e3%83%87%e3%82%a3%e3%83%ac%e3%82%af%e3%83%88%e3%83%aa\/rice-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf59 rice ball Emoji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A triangular white rice ball wrapped at the bottom with a strip of black-green nori seaweed \u2014 the rice ball emoji captures the iconic Japanese onigiri in its most photogenic triangular form. Texters use it for Japanese-cuisine content, anime-food references (onigiri shows up constantly in anime and manga), convenience-store snack posts from Japan, and bento-box meal-prep content. Lawson, FamilyMart, and 7-Eleven Japan convenience-store-food posts pull it in heavily.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Japan, the emoji represents Korean and Hawaiian rice balls (Korean jumeokbap, Hawaiian musubi). Spam musubi from Hawaii adopts it especially. Anime food scenes \u2014 particularly the famous onigiri-cheek scene from Pok\u00e9mon where 4Kids dubbed onigiri as &quot;jelly donuts&quot; \u2014 make it an anime-fandom inside joke.<\/p>\n<p>Spirited Away and Studio Ghibli food references pull it in too. Some users send it for cute, neat, compact lunch vibes in food-emoji strings. Added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010 from the original Japanese carrier set, the rice ball has been a defining Japanese-cuisine emoji since launch, beloved by anime fans worldwide.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \ud83c\udf59 rice ball emoji means Japanese onigiri, anime food, bento, Hawaiian musubi, and &#8216;jelly donut&#8217; Pok\u00e9mon meme.<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}"},"emoji_category":[1206],"class_list":["post-7104","emoji","type-emoji","status-publish","hentry","emoji_category-food-drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mojiedit.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/emoji\/7104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mojiedit.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/emoji"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mojiedit.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/emoji"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mojiedit.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"emoji_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mojiedit.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/emoji_category?post=7104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}