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🍱Bento Box Emoji
🍱 bento box is encoded at U+1F371 and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Food & Drink → Asian, alongside 16 related emojis.
What 🍱 bento box means
Nearly all of this set came in with the original 2010 import of Japanese carrier emoji, which is why it runs to 🍱 bento, 🍢 oden, 🍡 dango and 🍥 narutomaki rather than a broad pan-Asian menu. In practice 🍜 and 🍣 do most of the work — takeout plans, comfort-food posts and restaurant recommendations — with 🥟 and 🥠 close behind.
Unicode tags this one bento, box and food and files it under Food & Drink → Asian.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F371 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🍱 | |
| HTML decimal | 🍱 | |
| CSS | \1F371 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F371} | |
| Python | \U0001F371 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDF71 | |
| Rust | \u{1f371} | |
| Swift | \u{1F371} | |
| PHP | \u{1F371} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8D%B1 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8D B1 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DF71 | |
| Base64 | 8J+NsQ== | |
| Decimal | 127857 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🍱
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “bento box”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bento”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f371and Enter. - HTML — paste
🍱.
How 🍱 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🍱Apple
- 🍱Segoe
- 🍱Noto
- 🍱System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🍱 bento box emoji mean?+
🍱 is the bento box emoji, tagged bento, box and food. Nearly all of this set came in with the original 2010 import of Japanese carrier emoji, which is why it runs to 🍱 bento, 🍢 oden, 🍡 dango and 🍥 narutomaki rather than a broad pan-Asian menu. In practice 🍜 and 🍣 do most of the work — takeout plans, comfort-food posts and restaurant recommendations — with 🥟 and 🥠 close behind.
What is the Unicode code for 🍱?+
bento box is U+1F371. In HTML that is 🍱, in CSS \1F371, and in JavaScript \u{1F371}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🍱 emoji added?+
bento box got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Asian in Food & Drink.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🍱 bento box.