Cook: light skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a traditional white chef’s hat, known as a toque, depicted with a light skin tone. The character is portrayed from the shoulders up, highlighting the professional headgear used in culinary settings.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss food preparation, restaurant dining, or professional cooking careers. It is often swapped with 🍳 or 🥘 to signify that a meal is being prepared or to celebrate a hobbyist home cook.

History

The base character was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016, with skin tone variations added shortly after to allow users to represent themselves more accurately. The toque itself dates back to the 16th century and became the standard uniform for professional kitchens to promote hygiene and identify rank.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍🍳

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83C;&#xDF73;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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