What does 🍱 Bento Box mean?
A Japanese bento box divided into compartments holding rice, fish, vegetables and other small portions. It stands for packed lunches, meal prep and carefully arranged homemade meals, and it nods to Japanese food culture, from train station bento to convenience store lunches. Parents use it for school lunches, office workers for lunch break plans and meal preppers for their weekly containers.
🍱 Bento Box is an emoji from the Food & Drink category (asian foods), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
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🍱 Bento Box on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Bento Box looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Bento Box emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🍱 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :bento:.
When was the Bento Box emoji added?
🍱 Bento Box was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🍱 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Bento Box. The underlying code (U+1F371) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.