The story of the Dumpling emoji 🥟

Overcoming the limitations of a Latin-centric template of communication for the whole of humanity

Neel Dozome
UX Collective
Published in
8 min readOct 25, 2023

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A flour-dusted hand of chef that holds a dumpling being folded in its palm. The stuffing has meat and herbs.
Photo by Matthieu Joannon on Unsplash

The description on Wikipedia of a “dumpling” begins:

“Dumpling is a broad class of dishes that consist of pieces of cooked dough (made from a variety of…

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