Try Dumpling emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Dumpling emoji mean?
A folded dumpling, for East Asian food and comfort eating.
Comforting and specific. It covers gyoza, jiaozi, pierogi and more, which was the point of the proposal.
How to use 🥟 naturally
Restaurant posts, Lunar New Year messages and cooking photos.
Food and drink emoji are most often literal, but they also signal plans, cravings, celebrations and shared routines. Context is especially important when a food has a slang meaning in a particular community.
From standard to slang
The history of 🥟
- 2017
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Dumpling was first defined as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. One of the steady annual widenings of the vocabulary.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2017 after a widely shared campaign, drawn with a crimped edge so it can stand for several cuisines at once. The crimp is the one feature they all share.
- Today
How its use evolved
Restaurant posts, Lunar New Year messages and cooking photos.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🥟 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Steamed, twenty of them, no shame 🥟
New year dinner at my parents 🥟
Folding these badly for two hours 🥟
When to use it
Using 🥟 clearly
Restaurant posts, Lunar New Year messages and cooking photos. It lands as dumpling emoji or gyoza emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the dumpling emoji
What does 🥟 mean in a text message?
A folded dumpling, for East Asian food and comfort eating. Comforting and specific. It covers gyoza, jiaozi, pierogi and more, which was the point of the proposal.
Is 🥟 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are dumpling emoji, gyoza emoji, 🥟 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥟 look different on another device?
U+1F95F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the dumpling emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🥟 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the dumpling emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥟 as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🥟 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F95F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🥟 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🥟 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F95F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F95F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%9F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F95F
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- dumpling emojigyoza emoji🥟 meaning
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