Dumpling emoji

The Dumpling emoji (U+1F95F 🥟 DUMPLING) is an emoji included in the Unicode 10.0 and Emoji 5.0 lists, depicting a dumpling.[1] Designed by Yiying Lu, who jointly envisioned it with Jennifer 8. Lee, it was approved in January 2016 and officially released in March 2017.[2]

Development and usage history

In 2015, Lu was invited by Lee to have dumplings in San Francisco and realized that there wasn't a dumpling emoji on her smartphone.[3][4] Afterward, she mocked up an emoji-style dumpling "with an anthropomorphic face and flashing heart-shaped eyes" and set out on the goal "to make a dumpling emoji available to everybody."[1][5]

By November, Lee attended a meeting held by the Unicode Consortium in Silicon Valley after paying $75 for a membership.[6] There, she learned more about the process of how an emoji is created; she also was later appointed to an emoji subcommittee in the consortium.[7] Since becoming a voting member of the consortium required $7,500 per year at the time, Lee and Lu founded Emojination, a Kickstarter-funded organization advocating for more inclusive emojis which received support from people like Eddie Huang, Kenny Lao, and others, in addition to circulating a petition.[8][9][10] The campaign ultimately raised around $11,000.[11]

Lu and Lee pitched the dumpling emoji at another Unicode Consortium meeting in January 2016.[1][12] Lu and the consortium then went through multiple revisions of the dumpling emoji, such as the removal of an anthropomorphic face, the angle of it, and other notes from the latter. In the end, she chose a design that "doesn't look precisely like any dumpling" but rather could resemble dumplings from various culinary traditions around the world.[1] It was approved in mid-2016.[5]

In March 2017, the Unicode Consortium unveiled Emoji 5.0, which included 56 new emojis, including the dumpling emoji.[2]

Character information
Preview 🥟
Unicode name DUMPLING
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 129375 U+1F95F
UTF-8 240 159 165 159 F0 9F A5 9F
UTF-16 55358 56671 D83E DD5F
Numeric character reference 🥟 🥟

References

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  2. ^ a b "Dumplings and fortune cookies: Your emoji are about to get even more diverse". Quartz. 2016-02-11. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  3. ^ "World Emoji Day: Meet the San Francisco-based artist behind 6 of your favorite emojis". ABC7 San Francisco. 2025-07-18. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  4. ^ "Introducing the Dumpling Emoji, and a More Open Emoji Nomination Process". NBC News. 2016-01-20. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  5. ^ a b "This designer couldn't find a dumpling emoji – so she created one". SBS Food. 2017-10-13. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  6. ^ "One Woman's Bizarre, Delightful Quest To Change Emojis Forever". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on 2025-12-05. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  7. ^ Porzucki, By Nina (2016-01-08). "The quest to create the first dumpling emoji". The World from PRX. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  8. ^ Rainey, Clint (2015-12-11). "It's Time for the Dumpling Emoji". Grub Street. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  9. ^ Filloon, Whitney (2015-12-12). "Why Isn't There a Dumpling Emoji?". Eater. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  10. ^ Liotta, Edoardo (2019-04-12). "An Inside Look Into The Secret World Of Emoji Making". VICE. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  11. ^ Kastrenakes, Jacob (2016-02-08). "We may get an official dumpling emoji thanks to a Kickstarter campaign". The Verge. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  12. ^ Sweet, Jacob (2019-02-14). "Of Dumplings, Bok Choy, and the Politics of Emoji | Harvard Magazine". www.harvardmagazine.com. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
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