Cook: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-dark skin wearing a white toque, also known as a chef's hat. The character is portrayed as a professional in the culinary arts, prepared to work in a kitchen environment.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss food, professional cooking, or to signal that someone is busy preparing a meal. It is often paired with food-related icons like 🍳 or 🍝 to express excitement about dining or recipes.

History

The base cook emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the push to represent diverse professions. The skin tone variations were implemented using Unicode modifier sequences shortly after, allowing users to better represent the global diversity of the professional culinary workforce.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏾‍🍳

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#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

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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