Fork and knife Emoji
Food
A silver fork resting next to a knife, angled diagonally as if ready for a meal. This icon represents standard western dining utensils and the act of eating.
Usage Context
Used to signal that it is time to eat, to suggest a restaurant, or to talk about food in general. It is frequently sent as a dinner invitation or used in tandem with the plate with cutlery to show a completed meal or an upcoming reservation.
History
Included in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this emoji was adopted to standardize how mobile devices displayed dining concepts, replacing older, proprietary Japanese telecom graphic sets that often featured regional or specific styles of flatware.
Details
Glyph
🍴
Unicode
U+1F374
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f374:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category Food
Subcategory dishware
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.
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