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Kitchen knife

Kitchen knife Emoji

Food

A silver-bladed kitchen knife with a dark handle, positioned diagonally. It represents a sharp, versatile tool designed for food preparation, slicing, and dicing.

Usage Context

Used frequently in conversations about cooking, meal preparation, or restaurant work. It also appears in darker contexts to represent danger, horror, or slicing through a problem. It is often seen alongside 🥩 for meat preparation or 🔪-related warnings in digital safety discussions.

History

Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the emoji was primarily designed to standardize kitchen tools across mobile platforms. Its appearance has remained remarkably consistent across vendors, serving as a functional representation of a chef's primary instrument.

Details

Glyph
🔪
Unicode
U+1F52A
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f52a:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category Food
Subcategory dishware
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
kitchen knifeknifebladecutlerykitchenweaponbutcherschopcookingcuthochotoolchefsharpfood prep

Google Noto License

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

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.

Apache 2.0SIL OFL 1.1Noto Repository

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