Cook: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a traditional white chef's hat, known as a toque, depicted with a medium-light skin tone. They are often shown with a focused expression, representing someone actively preparing food or working in a professional kitchen.

Usage Context

Used to talk about cooking, restaurant work, or sharing a home-cooked meal. It is the go-to choice for foodies or professional culinary staff. It is frequently paired with food emojis like 🍳 or 🥘 to show off a recipe or a finished dish.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 to expand the range of gender-neutral professional roles. The ability to modify skin tones was introduced earlier in 2015 to make digital representation more inclusive across global platforms and social media.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🍳

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83C;&#xDF73;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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