Kitchen knife Emoji

Food

A silver-bladed kitchen knife with a dark handle, positioned diagonally. It represents a sharp, versatile tool designed for food preparation, slicing, and dicing.

Usage Context

Used frequently in conversations about cooking, meal preparation, or restaurant work. It also appears in darker contexts to represent danger, horror, or slicing through a problem. It is often seen alongside 🥩 for meat preparation or 🔪-related warnings in digital safety discussions.

History

Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the emoji was primarily designed to standardize kitchen tools across mobile platforms. Its appearance has remained remarkably consistent across vendors, serving as a functional representation of a chef's primary instrument.

Details

Glyph

🔪

Unicode

U+1F52A

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f52a:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD2A;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Food

Subcategory dishware

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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