Cook Emoji

People

A person wearing a white, tall-crowned chef's hat, known as a toque blanche, and a simple collar. The character represents someone preparing food in a professional kitchen or home setting.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to signal that someone is cooking, sharing a recipe, or identifying as a professional chef. It is often paired with food-related icons like 🍳 or 🥘 to show the active process of preparing a meal.

History

While the profession of cooking dates back to ancient history, this specific emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2017. It was introduced as part of a push to provide gender-neutral representations for common roles that were previously restricted to male or female-only variants.

Details

Glyph

🧑‍🍳

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;‍&#xD83C;&#xDF73;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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