Cook Emoji

People

A person wearing a white, tall-crowned chef's hat, known as a toque blanche, and a simple collar. The character represents someone preparing food in a professional kitchen or home setting.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to signal that someone is cooking, sharing a recipe, or identifying as a professional chef. It is often paired with food-related icons like 🍳 or 🥘 to show the active process of preparing a meal.

History

While the profession of cooking dates back to ancient history, this specific emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2017. It was introduced as part of a push to provide gender-neutral representations for common roles that were previously restricted to male or female-only variants.

Details

Glyph

🧑‍🍳

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;‍&#xD83C;&#xDF73;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.

Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.

MIT License Fluent Emoji Repository