Cook: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person wearing a traditional white chef's toque, represented here with a medium skin tone. This emoji features a neutral, gender-inclusive face and serves as a direct professional identifier for someone working in a kitchen.

Usage Context

Used to denote cooking, professional culinary work, or simply talking about food preparation. It is the go-to character for restaurant workers or home cooks showing off a meal. It is frequently grouped with food-related icons like 🍳 or 🍝 to create a clear narrative about preparing a dish.

History

The cook emoji was added in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. It reflects the evolution of emoji sets toward greater inclusivity by offering gender-neutral, base-level characters that allow for skin tone modifiers, moving away from the limited, often gender-coded versions found in early character sets.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍🍳

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#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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