The curry rice emoji is the digital equivalent of a warm hug in a bowl: fluffy white rice cozied up next to a glossy pool of curry sauce. It’s shorthand for comfort food, cozy nights in, and the moment your brain says, “we deserve carbs.” You’ll see it in posts about #currynight, meal-prep victories, or that 10 p.m. text that translates to “I’m starving, want takeout?” It also pops up as a playful stand-in for “spice” — as in a spicy take, a saucy reply, or when a convo needs more flavor than plain rice energy.
On Apple devices, this emoji shows a clean white plate from a top-down angle, split neatly: a mound of bright white rice on one side and rich brown-orange curry on the other, with chunky bits peeking through the sauce. The style is glossy and tidy, like a food-magazine shot—no splatters, just immaculate half-and-half plating that screams “cozy perfection.” Those visible chunks suggest meat or veggies, and tiny green flecks sometimes read as garnish, giving it that “I simmered this for hours” look.
Culturally, it nods most to Japanese kare raisu—comfort-food royalty with roots in South Asia and a big detour through Britain—aka the weeknight hero of school lunches, dorm kitchens, and rainy-day cravings. Online, it’s used earnestly to plan dinner, dramatically to announce “food coma incoming,” and flirtatiously as code for “come over, I’ll cook.” Drop it under a steaming pot Reel, pair it with fire or drool emojis for maximum thirst (for food), or deploy it sarcastically when someone’s take is bland and needs, well… curry.
Definition
A plate full of rice and curry. A curry dish of food is a very flavorful and spice filled and can be either vegetarian or contain meat, such as beef, pork or chicken. Potatoes, onions and carrots are also found in many curries.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
511 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:curry:
Keywords
Curry, Spice, Flavor, Food, Meal
Previous Names:
Curry and Rice
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Editorial Comment
Lots of food items in a bowl. iEmoji Old name: Pot Of Food
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Foods
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Names & Annotations
CURRY AND RICE = japanese style curry
Symbol Information
U+1F35B proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-96C
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[カレー]
KDDI
#431 カレー 「karee」 U+EAB6 SJIS-F38A JIS-796A
Softbank
#181 #old335 カレー 「karee」 U+E341 SJIS-F9E1
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🍛
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🍛
Decimal HTML Entity
🍛
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🍛
Hex Code Point(s)
1f35b
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F35B
Decimal Code Point(s)
127835
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0x9B
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D 9B
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 233
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF5B
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf5b
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57179
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F35B
UTF-32 Hex
01F35B
UTF-32 Dec
127835
Python Src
u"\U0001F35B"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\x9b"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF5B"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
