{"id":3559,"date":"2016-01-30T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2022-02-07T22:53:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T03:53:23","slug":"chinese-food-emoji-proposed-by-me-and-yiying-lu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/chinese-food-emoji-proposed-by-me-and-yiying-lu\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese food  emoji proposed by me and Yiying Lu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Yiying-Lu-emoji.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3566\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Yiying-Lu-emoji.png 960w, http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Yiying-Lu-emoji-300x156.png 300w, http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Yiying-Lu-emoji-768x400.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yiying Lu and I proposed a slate of Chinese food-related emoji, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicode.org\/L2\/L2016\/16026-takeout-box-emoji.pdf\">takeout box<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicode.org\/L2\/L2016\/16024-dumpling-emoji.pdf\">dumpling<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/unicode.org\/L2\/L2016\/16025-fortune-cookie-emoji.pdf\">fortune cookie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicode.org\/L2\/L2016\/16023-chopsticks-emoji.pdf\">chopsticks<\/a>. To be sure, the fortune cookie and takeout box emoji are actually more American in symbols than Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> This all started when Yiying Lu and I were puzzled by lack of a dumpling emoji, decided to do something about it \u2014 then others kind of rolled in. Lots of coverage, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eater.com\/2015\/12\/11\/9904704\/dumpling-emoji-campaign\">Eater<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mic.com\/articles\/130924\/jennifer-8-lee-emojination-dumpling-emoji\">Mic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/charliewarzel\/there-will-be-dumplings\">Buzzfeed<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I am honest, I don&#8217;t think fortune cookie would have made it on its own merits, but it can ride the coat-tails of the others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yiying Lu and I proposed a slate of Chinese food-related emoji, including takeout box, dumpling, fortune cookie and chopsticks. To be sure, the fortune cookie and takeout box emoji are actually more American in symbols than Chinese. This all started when Yiying Lu and I were puzzled by lack of a dumpling emoji, decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-Vp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}