🥟 dumpling Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the dumpling Emoji 🥟 Mean?

A crescent-shaped dumpling with crimped edges on top, browned slightly on the bottom — the dumpling emoji captures the universal Asian-dumpling silhouette that works for Chinese jiaozi, Japanese gyoza, Korean mandu, Nepalese momo, and many more regional variations. Texters use it for Chinese-cuisine content, dim-sum posts, Lunar New Year captions, Asian-cuisine restaurant photos, and family-dumpling-making content. Dumpling-making is a major family tradition during Lunar New Year across Chinese-speaking communities worldwide, and the emoji shows up constantly in those January-February family-cooking posts.

Beyond Lunar New Year, gyoza-night, mandu-recipe, and dim-sum-cart content adopt it heavily. The dumpling emoji has special significance because it was advocated for by dumpling-loving emoji activist Jennifer 8. Lee, whose campaign for a dumpling emoji became a documented case study in how emojis get approved through the Unicode Consortium.

Added to Unicode 10.0 in 2017, the dumpling emoji finally gave a major global cuisine its proper representation on the keyboard.