๐ฅDumpling Emoji
Generally, the ๐ฅ emoji just means a dumpling. Itโs a fun way to talk about food, often Chinese food specifically.
The ๐ฅ emoji is a dumpling.
- Unicode
- U+1F95F
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :dumpling:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ๐ฅ Dumpling emoji mean?
One character, many names โ these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
Dumpling emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F95F โ but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your dumpling looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it โ iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Dumpling emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :dumpling:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the dumpling, code point U+1F95F.
How to type the ๐ฅ Dumpling emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F95F when there is no key at all.
Dumpling emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files โ one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Dumpling emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around dumpling for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with ๐ฅ, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
Dumpling Emoji Kitchen stickers
Google's sticker mixer already has this one paired up, and the ready-made combinations number 14. Tap any to open it full size.
What ๐ฅ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the dumpling and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What ๐ฅ means in other countries
Nearly every food culture has its own version, so the emoji doesnโt point to one dish โ jiaozi, gyoza, mandu, pierogi, and momo all apply.
Tied to Lunar New Year, shaped to resemble ancient gold ingots as a symbol of wealth.
Reads as pierogi, an everyday comfort food with no festival meaning attached.
Points to momo, common street food rather than a symbolic dish.
Before you send it: Safe everywhere; add a word if you need to specify which cultureโs dumpling you mean.
What ๐ฅ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the ๐ฅ Dumpling emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 5.0, the dumpling has been on phones for years now โ counting from its release, 9.
Same character every time โ U+1F95F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Dumpling was approved as U+1F95F and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ๐ฅ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes โ only the picture does.