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A dumpling of dough and filling, as folded and pinched closed for steaming or frying. Associated with cuisines around the world, including <a href="/flag-china/">China</a> (jiaozi), <a href="/flag-japan/">Japan</a> (gyoza&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="/dango/">dango</a>), <a href="/flag-poland/">Poland</a> (pierogi), and <a href="/flag-spain/">Spain</a> and Latin America (empanada).

Facebook&#39;s design <a href="/facebook/2.1/dumpling/">previously</a> resembled&nbsp;a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaolongbao">xiaolongbao</a>, a Chinese soup dumpling.

Dumpling

A bowl of steamed white rice, a staple component of cuisine throughout Asia. Bowl color varies across platforms, though is often white.

Cooked Rice

A bowl of steaming-hot food. Depicted as Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramen#Etymology">ramen</a>&nbsp;(noodles in broth) with&nbsp;<a href="/chopsticks/">chopsticks&nbsp;</a>on most platforms, though it can represent a warm meal more generally.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/steaming-bowl/">previously resembled</a>&nbsp;<a href="/pot-of-food/">Pot of Food</a>.

Steaming Bowl

A&nbsp;<a href="/flag-mexico/" title="🇲🇽 Flag For Mexico">Mexican&nbsp;</a>or Tex-Mex taco on a hard or soft corn tortilla, filled with such ingredients as&nbsp;<a href="/cut-of-meat/">beef</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/leafy-green/">lettuce</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/tomato/">tomato</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/cheese-wedge/">cheese</a>, and onion. Apple&rsquo;s design resembles a&nbsp;carne asada&nbsp;taco, with cilantro and white onion.

Taco

A&nbsp;<a href="/flag-mexico/" title="🇲🇽 Flag For Mexico">Mexican&nbsp;</a>or Tex-Mex burrito, featuring a wrapped flour tortilla filled with such ingredients as&nbsp;<a href="/cut-of-meat/">beef</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/cooked-rice/">rice</a>, beans,&nbsp;<a href="/cheese-wedge/">cheese</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/tomato/">tomato</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/leafy-green/">lettuce</a>, and sour cream. Served in foil on several major platforms,&nbsp;suggesting a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_burrito">Mission&nbsp;burrito</a>&nbsp;associated with San Francisco. Not to be confused with the&nbsp;<a href="/stuffed-flatbread/">Stuffed Flatbread</a>.

Burrito

A tall, folded, paper carton, usually white, as used for takeout/takeaway&nbsp;food at Western Chinese restaurants. Most platforms depict&nbsp;<a href="/chopsticks/" title="🥢 Chopsticks">chopsticks&nbsp;</a>inside its open lid, labeled with a red, multi-tiered, traditional Chinese building.&nbsp;Also called an&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_pail">oyster pail</a>.

Takeout Box

A golden-brown, crescent-shaped, vanilla-flavored fortune cookie. Usually depicted with a strip of paper&mdash;on which a wise saying, lucky numbers, or&nbsp;<a href="/flag-china/">Chinese&nbsp;</a>vocabulary is written&mdash;peaking out of its hollow shell. Given at the end of meals at Chinese restaurants in the West.

Fortune Cookie

Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi">sushi</a>, generally depicted as two pieces of raw pinkish-orange&nbsp;<a href="/fish/">fish</a>, as tuna or salmon, on white&nbsp;<a href="/cooked-rice/">rice&nbsp;</a>(nigiri). Some platforms show the cylindrical&nbsp;maki, a piece of seafood, vegetables, and white rice wrapped in seaweed (nori).

Sushi

A pair of equal-length chopsticks, an eating utensil used throughout East Asia. Design and color vary&nbsp;widely by platform, though often red or wood-colored and with tips angled together. Featured in many platforms&#39;&nbsp;<a href="/steaming-bowl/">Steaming Bowl of Food</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/takeout-box/">Takeout Box</a>. A counterpart to utensils such as&nbsp;<a href="/fork-and-knife/">Fork and Knife&nbsp;</a>and&nbsp;<a href="/spoon/">Spoon</a>.

Chopsticks

A flat, shallow, black pan with side handles, containing saffron-colored&nbsp;<a href="/cooked-rice/">rice</a>, vegetables, a leg of&nbsp;<a href="/poultry-leg/">poultry</a>, and/or&nbsp;<a href="/fried-shrimp/">shrimp&nbsp;</a>and&nbsp;<a href="/cooking/">lemon&nbsp;</a>slices. Commonly associated with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paella">paella</a>, a traditional dish from&nbsp;<a href="/flag-spain/" title="🇪🇸 Flag for Spain">Spain</a>. May be used for eating,&nbsp;<a href="/cooking/">cooking</a>, dining, and meals more generally.

Apple&#39;s version of this emoji is considered to be <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-fixes-paella-emoji/">representative</a> of the traditional ingredients&nbsp;from Valencia. Samsung <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/shallow-pan-of-food/">previously displayed</a> this emoji as a Korean hot pot.

Shallow Pan of Food

Thin-cut, golden-brown French fries, served in a red carton, as at McDonald&rsquo;s. Apple features&nbsp;<a href="/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/">Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes&nbsp;</a>on its carton.

French Fries

A Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senbei">senbei</a>, or rice cracker, wrapped with a sheet of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nori">nori</a>, or seaweed, a snack commonly enjoyed with&nbsp;<a href="/teacup-without-handle/">green tea</a>.

Rice Cracker

A Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onigiri">onigiri</a>, a&nbsp;cone-shaped ball of white&nbsp;<a href="/cooked-rice/">rice</a>, a snack wrapped with a sheet of&nbsp;nori, or seaweed.

Rice Ball

A plate of orange-brown curry with vegetables or&nbsp;<a href="/cut-of-meat/">meat</a>, served with a mound of white <a href="/cooked-rice/">rice</a>. May represent&nbsp;kare-raisu, or&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_curry">Japanese curry</a>, though commonly associated with&nbsp;<a href="/flag-india/">India</a>&nbsp;and other Asian cuisines.

Curry and Rice

A skewer of three bites of Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oden">oden</a>, a winter dish made with&nbsp;<a href="/fish-cake-with-swirl/">fishcakes</a>, tofu, konnyaku, and a variety of other ingredients, including boiled&nbsp;<a href="/egg/">eggs</a>. Often served as a stew or skewered and dipped into soy sauce. Resembles the&nbsp;<a href="/dango/">Dango&nbsp;</a>and may be used for other skewered foods (e.g., shish&nbsp;<a href="/stuffed-flatbread/">kebab</a>, roasting marshmallows) or spears.

Oden

A prawn or shrimp breaded and deep-fried golden-brown. Known as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_prawn">ebi furai</a>&nbsp;in Japan but commonly called shrimp&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempura">tempura</a>&nbsp;and served in a&nbsp;<a href="/bento-box/" title="🍱 Bento Box">bento box</a>. Not to be confused with the&nbsp;<a href="/shrimp/">Shrimp</a>.

Fried Shrimp

A Japanese sweet&nbsp;<a href="/dumpling/">dumpling</a>&nbsp;made from rice flour and served on a skewer. Depicted as a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dango">botchan dango</a>, comprising a pink, white or light yellow, and green ball, as colored by red beans,&nbsp;<a href="/egg/">egg</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/teacup-without-handle/">green tea</a>. Resembles the&nbsp;<a href="/oden/">Oden</a>&nbsp;and featured in the&nbsp;<a href="/moon-viewing-ceremony/">Moon Viewing Ceremony</a>, used in the Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukimi">festival</a>&nbsp;to celebrate the&nbsp;<a href="/full-moon/">full moon</a>.&nbsp;

Dango

An&nbsp;<a href="/egg/">egg&nbsp;</a>with yolk frying in a skillet, as prepared sunny-side up. Though associated with breakfast, the emoji represents the general action of cooking and related concepts.

An <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/cooking/">early Apple design</a> included broken eggshells and did not feature a skillet, while an <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-2.0/cooking/">early Samsung design</a> simply displayed a fried egg.

Cooking

The long, thin loaf of a baguette, with scoring on its golden-brown crust. A bread commonly associated with&nbsp;<a href="/flag-france/">France</a>.&nbsp;May also be used to denote financial success, as per the slang term &quot;<a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/let-s-get-this-bread">let&#39;s get this bread</a>&quot;.

Baguette Bread

A silver spoon, as used to eat soup, cereal, or&nbsp;<a href="/ice-cream/">ice cream</a>&nbsp;as well as serve food&nbsp;or stir drinks. Positioned at various angles across platforms. May be paired with&nbsp;<a href="/fork-and-knife/">Fork and Knife</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/fork-and-knife-with-plate/">Fork and&nbsp;Knife With Plate</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/bowl-with-spoon/">Bowl With Spoon</a>.

Spoon

The flag for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain">Spain</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;ES&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Spain

A loaf of white or wheat bread, as before it is sliced for toast or sandwiches. May also be used to denote financial success, as per the slang term &quot;<a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/let-s-get-this-bread">let&#39;s get this bread</a>&quot;.

Microsoft&#39;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/bread/">previously</a> resembled a&nbsp;<a href="/baguette-bread/">🥖 Baguette</a>.

Bread

The flag for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China">China</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;CN&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: China

A pig, a plump animal farmed for its meat, such as <a href="/bacon/">bacon</a>. Depicted in light pink in full profile on all fours facing left, with a long snout and short, curly tail.

May be used to represent the animal, its food products, or various metaphorical senses of pig.

One of the 12 animals of the <a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese zodiac</a>; 2019 is the Year of the Pig. See also<a href="/pig-face/"> 🐷 Pig Face</a>, <a href="/pig-nose/">🐽 Pig Nose</a>, and <a href="/boar/">🐗 Boar</a>.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s design <a href="/whatsapp/2.17/pig/">previously</a> featured a wide grin.

The flag for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan">Japan</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;JP&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Japan

A pot, as a casserole dish, filled with a warm and hearty&nbsp;<a href="/cut-of-meat/">beef&nbsp;</a>or vegetable stew on most platforms. Generally used for eating and&nbsp;<a href="/cooking/">cooking&nbsp;</a>(&ldquo;a meal&rdquo;), and commonly associated with soup or Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabemono">nabe</a>.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/pot-of-food/">previously</a> resembled a bowl of ramen or other noodle dish, with&nbsp;<a href="/chopsticks/">chopsticks</a>.

Pot of Food

A cup of green tea, as the minty-colored Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matcha">matcha</a>, usually shown on a wooden mat. Matcha is traditionally served in a small bowl that resembles a cup without a handle. Often taken as a bowl of soup, such as a split pea.

Teacup Without Handle

The flag for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland">Poland</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;PL&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Poland

A bowl with a silver&nbsp;<a href="/spoon/">spoon&nbsp;</a>inside, as used to eat cereal or soup. Bowl color varies across platforms, as do contents, though most are empty.

WhatsApp&#39;s bowl contains&nbsp;<a href="/tomato/">tomato</a>&nbsp;soup, while Google&#39;s <a href="/google/android-8.0/bowl-with-spoon/">previously</a> contained&nbsp;<a href="/cooking/">breakfast</a>&nbsp;cereal.

Bowl with Spoon

The round, golden-brown pastry of a <a href="/flag-china/">Chinese</a> mooncake, a traditional delicacy and lunar symbol of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival">Mid-Autumn Festival</a>. Many platforms feature a design or character imprinted on the crust, and depict a slice cut out to show a brown paste with a duck egg yolk inside. Twitter displays the Chinese character for <a href="/fall-autumn/">&ldquo;fall/autumn&rdquo;</a> or &ldquo;harvest&rdquo; (秋) on top.

Moon Cake

A red envelope, as gifted with money on <a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese New Year</a> or on other joyous occasions, such as <a href="/wedding-marriage/">weddings</a>, in&nbsp;Chinese and some other Asian cultures around the world.

Depicted as a red, vertical envelope with a gold design, typically featuring the Chinese character <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_(character)">福</a> (f&uacute;, &ldquo;good fortune, luck, happiness&quot;). Google&rsquo;s design<a href="/google/android-9.0/red-envelope/"> previously</a> featured&nbsp;the character upside down, indicating &ldquo;good luck arrives.&rdquo;

Often used to celebrate and wish good fortune on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year">Chinese New Year</a> (Lunar New Year, Spring Festival). Also used to represent gifts, celebration, Chinese culture, and the color red more generally.

Red Gift Envelope

An emoji showing the fingers held together in a vertical orientation, often referred to as the Italian hand gesture ma che vuoi, sometimes called the &quot;finger purse.&quot;&nbsp;In Italy this gesture tends to be used in disagreement, frustration, or disbelief and can mean &ldquo;What do you want?&rdquo; or &ldquo;What are you saying?&rdquo; Outside Italy anyone performing a caricature of an Italian person, regardless of context or tone, might use this gesture.

Pinched Fingers has a variety of other culturally specific uses. In Israeli culture it can mean &ldquo;hold on,&rdquo; &ldquo;relax,&rdquo; or &ldquo;be patient.&rdquo; The K-Pop star <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwon_Yu-ri">Yuri</a> uses it as a signature gesture to represent a <a href="/dumpling/">dumpling</a> and a general warm sentiment. It can also be used to represent the act of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisting">fisting</a>.

Not to be confused with <a href="/pinching-hand/">🤏 Pinching Hand</a>, which has overlapping senses. Both are used to represent <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/the-pinching-hand-emoji-is-a-lot/">precision</a> when someone is making a sharp point with accompanying speech.

Pinched Fingers

The face of a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon">dragon</a>, a mythical creature resembling a giant reptile found in the folklore of many cultures. Depicted as a green, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon">Chinese-styled dragon</a> looking straight ahead or facing left. Often shown with huge nostrils, baring large teeth and a red tongue, with antler-like structures on its head, whisker-like tendrils by its nostrils, and a green or yellow mane.

See also <a href="/dragon/">🐉&nbsp;Dragon</a>. One of the 12 animals of the&nbsp;Chinese zodiac. Commonly used on&nbsp;<a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese New Year</a>&nbsp;and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George%27s_Day">St. George&#39;s Day</a>. Also used for various medieval&nbsp;and fantasy content.

Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Microsoft&#39;s dragon face was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/dragon-face/">previously</a> red and looking straight ahead. <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/dragon-face/">Samsung&#39;s</a> dragon face previously resembled a red, friendly, cartoon-styled <a href="/angry-face-with-horns/">imp</a> with horns.

Dragon Face

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Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

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Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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