Woman cook: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A woman wearing a tall white toque blanche—the classic chef's hat—with medium-toned skin. She is portrayed as a professional in a culinary setting, often shown holding a wooden spoon or standing near a workspace.

Usage Context

Used to talk about cooking, restaurant work, or fine dining. People frequently drop this emoji to announce they are preparing a meal, sharing a recipe, or identifying themselves as a professional chef. It is often combined with food items like 🍕 or 🥘 to clarify the specific dish being prepared.

History

This emoji was created by combining the existing woman emoji with the chef hat icon using a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence. It was rolled out in 2016 as part of a major Unicode update focused on increasing gender and skin tone diversity across professional character sets.

Details

Glyph

👩🏽‍🍳

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F373

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fd_200d_1f373:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#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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