Woman cook: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A woman wearing a tall white toque blanche—the classic chef's hat—with medium-toned skin. She is portrayed as a professional in a culinary setting, often shown holding a wooden spoon or standing near a workspace.

Usage Context

Used to talk about cooking, restaurant work, or fine dining. People frequently drop this emoji to announce they are preparing a meal, sharing a recipe, or identifying themselves as a professional chef. It is often combined with food items like 🍕 or 🥘 to clarify the specific dish being prepared.

History

This emoji was created by combining the existing woman emoji with the chef hat icon using a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence. It was rolled out in 2016 as part of a major Unicode update focused on increasing gender and skin tone diversity across professional character sets.

Details

Glyph

👩🏽‍🍳

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fd_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#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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