Woman cook: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with medium-light skin wearing a tall, white chef’s toque and a matching uniform. She is depicted as a professional culinary expert, often shown with a neutral or slight smile.

Usage Context

Used to discuss cooking, restaurant work, or food preparation. It is the go-to emoji for showing off a home-cooked meal or identifying oneself as a culinary professional. People often use it alongside food icons like 🍳 or 🍝 to clarify what is being prepared in the kitchen.

History

This emoji was created as part of the effort to diversify the emoji catalog, appearing in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. It introduced skin tone modifiers to represent a wider range of people in various professional roles, moving beyond the default gender-neutral or yellow-skinned characters found in early messaging systems.

Details

Glyph

👩🏼‍🍳

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fc_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#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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