The onion metaphor is similar. If the outer layer is peeled off an onion, a similar onion exists within. This structure is employed by designers in applications such as the layering of clothes or the design of tables, where a smaller table nests within a larger table, and a smaller one within that. The metaphor of the matryoshka doll (or its onion equivalent) is also used in the description of shell companies and similar corporate structures that are used in the context of tax-evasion schemes in low-tax jurisdictions (for example, offshore tax havens). It has also been used to describe satellites and suspected weapons in space. As an emoji In 2020, the Unicode Consortium approved the matryoshka doll (🪆) as one of the new emoji characters in release v.13. The matryoshka or nesting doll emoji was presented to the consortium by Jef Gray, as a non-religious, apolitical symbol of Russian-East European-Far East Asian culture. See also Amish doll Chinese boxes Daruma doll Droste effect Fractal Mise en abyme Recursion Russian culture Self-similarity Shaker-style pantry box Stacking (video game) Turducken Turtles all the way down References External links 1890s toys Armenian culture Containers Culture of Georgia (country) Handicrafts Nested containers Products introduced in 1890 Russian culture Russian inventions Soviet culture Traditional dolls Ukrainian culture Wooden dolls 1890 establishments in the Russian Empire