Japanese sushi, typically depicted as two slices of raw pinkish-orange fish, such as tuna or salmon, served atop a small mounds of vinegared white rice (nigiri).

The designs from WhatsApp and Twitter also show cylindrical maki: seafood, vegetables, and white rice wrapped in seaweed (nori). Early designs from Microsoft and Facebook also included a piece of maki.

Previous designs from Google and Samsung featured a single piece of sushi alongside a piece of sweet Japanese omelette (tamago nigiri), placed on rice and secured with a strip of seaweed (nori).

This emoji predates the inclusion of emojis within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by SoftBank in 2000.

Sushi was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.