Nesting dolls
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- Shortcode
:nesting_dolls:- Unicode
U+1FA86- HTML
🪆- CSS
\1FA86- JavaScript
"\u{1FA86}"- URL
%F0%9F%AA%86
What ๐ช means
Matryoshka dolls, the Russian wooden dolls that fit one inside another. They stand for Russian folk art and for things nested in layers.
People use them for "layers within layers," such as a plan inside a plan or a nested folder. Programmers like them for recursion jokes.
Facts
Nesting dolls ๐ช is an emoji in the activities category, under game. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :nesting_dolls:. People also look for it with words like โbabooshkaโ, โbaboushkaโ, โbabushkaโ, or โdollโ.
Timeline
- 2020Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 13.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2020
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.