Man cook: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium-dark skin tone wearing a tall, white chef's toque and a white jacket. The design clearly identifies a culinary professional or someone engaged in the act of cooking.

Usage Context

Used to represent professional chefs, home cooks, or people discussing food preparation. It is frequently sent when sharing recipes, talking about restaurant outings, or showing off a homemade meal. It often appears alongside food-related icons like 🍳, 🥘, or 👨‍🍳 to add personal flair to a message.

History

While the chef character was part of the earlier emoji standards, the ability to modify skin tones was added in later updates to Unicode, reflecting a push for better representation of real-world kitchen staff and food enthusiasts across different demographics.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍🍳

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#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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