Cook: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a traditional white chef's hat, known as a toque, depicted with a medium-light skin tone. They are often shown with a focused expression, representing someone actively preparing food or working in a professional kitchen.

Usage Context

Used to talk about cooking, restaurant work, or sharing a home-cooked meal. It is the go-to choice for foodies or professional culinary staff. It is frequently paired with food emojis like 🍳 or 🥘 to show off a recipe or a finished dish.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 to expand the range of gender-neutral professional roles. The ability to modify skin tones was introduced earlier in 2015 to make digital representation more inclusive across global platforms and social media.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🍳

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83C;&#xDF73;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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