This emoji is the crunchy, golden-brown glory of a Japanese senbei—aka the snack that crackles louder than your group chat. On Apple devices, it shows a warm, toasted disc with a deep green-black nori rectangle snug on top, subtle highlights, and soft shading that makes it feel just a little 3D and extra crisp. You can almost hear the soy-sauce glaze snap when you look at it.
Online, people drop the rice cracker to talk snacks, flex a konbini haul, or set the vibe for anime-and-chill night. It’s great for wordplay—“crunch time,” “a crunchy take,” or “I’m salty” when the soy sauce energy is real. It also works ironically when a convo is painfully dry: send one cracker, no context. Paired with tea or matcha, it screams cozy break; paired with fire, it’s “toasted” praise. And yes, it’s flirty in a foodie way: “you’re not just a snack, you’re a whole senbei.” Culturally, it nods to classic Japanese street stalls and tea-time traditions—don’t confuse it with the onigiri rice ball; this one’s the crispy cousin.
Definition
A cracker made of rice, or a rice cracker. This emoji is a Japanese rice cracker (Senbei). Often eaten as a snack combined with green tea. The Apple version emoji has a piece of nori (edible seaweed) on it.
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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)
490 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
:rice_cracker:
Keywords
Rice, Cracker, Seaweed, Food, Japanese
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Foods
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Names & Annotations
RICE CRACKER Temporary Notes: Japanese rice cracker (senbei)
Symbol Information
U+1F358 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-969
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[せんべい]
KDDI
#428 おせんべい 「osenbei」 U+EAB3 SJIS-F387 JIS-7967
Softbank
#175 #old331 おせんべい 「osenbei」 U+E33D SJIS-F9DD
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
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)
e33d
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E33D
Decimal Code Point(s)
58173
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x8C 0xBD
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 8C BD
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 214 275
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE33D
UTF-16 Hex
e33d
UTF-16 Dec
58173
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E33D
UTF-32 Hex
E33D
UTF-32 Dec
58173
Python Src
u"\uE33D"
PHP Src
"\xee\x8c\xbd"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE33D"
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)
1f358
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F358
Decimal Code Point(s)
127832
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0x98
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D 98
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 230
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF58
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf58
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57176
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F358
UTF-32 Hex
01F358
UTF-32 Dec
127832
Python Src
u"\U0001F358"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\x98"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF58"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
