Man cook: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium-light skin wearing a tall, white chef's toque and a matching white jacket. He represents a professional culinary worker or someone prepared to cook a meal.

Usage Context

Used to talk about cooking dinner, working in a restaurant, or sharing a recipe. It is frequently sent alongside food-related icons like 🍳 or 🍝 to indicate that a meal is being prepared or served.

History

While the base character for a man was part of early emoji sets, the ability to modify specific occupations with skin tones was introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, following a push to make digital communication more inclusive and reflective of diverse professional roles.

Details

Glyph

👨🏼‍🍳

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fc_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#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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