Man cook: light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a fair complexion wearing a tall, white chef’s toque and a matching jacket. This emoji depicts a professional culinary worker or someone prepared to handle the kitchen duties for a meal.

Usage Context

Used to discuss cooking, restaurant work, or to signal that someone is busy preparing food. It is frequently sent when sharing a home-cooked recipe or acknowledging a delicious meal. It is often grouped with the 🍳 cooking pan or the 🥘 shallow pan of food to describe the process of making dinner.

History

The base man cook emoji arrived in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of an effort to diversify professional roles across all genders. The light skin tone modifier was added through the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, allowing users to customize the character to better reflect personal identity.

Details

Glyph

👨🏻‍🍳

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fb_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#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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