Man cook: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a dark skin tone wearing a tall, white chef’s toque and a matching kitchen uniform. He appears ready to prepare a meal in a professional or home kitchen setting.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to talk about cooking, restaurant work, or food preparation. It is frequently sent by home cooks sharing recipes or by professionals in the culinary industry. It acts as a gendered variant to the woman cook and is often paired with food-related icons like 🍳 or 🥘.

History

The base character was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The dark skin tone modifier was added in 2015 as part of the Emoji 1.0 update, which implemented the Fitzpatrick scale to provide more diverse representations of human characters across digital platforms.

Details

Glyph

👨🏿‍🍳

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#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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