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(ECNS) -- Two Chinese Americans are launching a campaign to include one of the world's most popular foods - dumplings - into the emoji family for more diversity.
As the saying goes, "A picture is worth a thousand words", with emojis having become beloved little sidekicks in the digital era, usually to say what a sentence can't.
Jennifer Lee, a former New York Times journalist and co-founder of Plympton, a digital publishing company, alongside Yiying Lu, a designer who created Twitter Fail Whale, are advocating a campaign called Emojination.
It stands to provide people a collective sense of their ability to have a voice in the emoji process, Lee told Mic. com. She had the dumpling idea while texting Lu, who first noticed there was no emoji for them.
Lee paid $75 for a basic membership to Unicode Consortium, which oversees and governs the evolution of emojis. Lu also made a proposal to include other food as emoji.
Unicode president Mark Davis said the proposal was going through a process.
Emojination supporters say their larger goal is to diversify and improve the system by which emojis are chosen in the first place since the symbol-based communication tool is lacking in diversity.
