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🧑‍🍳Cook Emoji

Q: What does the 🧑🍳 cook emoji mean?

🧑🍳 is the cook emoji, tagged chef. Jobs and identities, and the largest subgroup in People & Body. Almost all of them are ZWJ sequences: 👨🍳 is literally a man plus a zero-width joiner plus 🍳. The professions arrived in 2016 as man and woman pairs, with gender-neutral versions following in 2019. Used for introductions, career news and dressing-up jokes.

Q: What is the Unicode code for 🧑🍳?

cook is U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F373. In HTML that is 🧑🍳, in CSS \1F9D1\200D\1F373, and in JavaScript \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F373}. The full table above lists every escape format.

Tagged chef, 🧑‍🍳 cook sits in Unicode's Roles & Careers group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 12.1 (2019) at U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F373.

What 🧑‍🍳 cook means

Jobs and identities, and the largest subgroup in People & Body. Almost all of them are ZWJ sequences: 👨‍🍳 is literally a man plus a zero-width joiner plus 🍳. The professions arrived in 2016 as man and woman pairs, with gender-neutral versions following in 2019. Used for introductions, career news and dressing-up jokes.

Unicode tags this one chef and files it under People & Body → Roles & Careers.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How 🧑‍🍳 is built

This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.

🧑U+1F9D1person
·U+200DZero-width joiner
🍳U+1F373cooking

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F373`
HTML hex	`🧑‍🍳`
HTML decimal	`🧑‍🍳`
CSS	`\1F9D1\200D\1F373`
JavaScript	`\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F373}`
Python	`\U0001F9D1\U0000200D\U0001F373`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDDD1\u200D\uD83C\uDF73`
Rust	`\u{1f9d1}\u{200d}\u{1f373}`
Swift	`\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F373}`
PHP	`\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F373}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8D%B3`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A7 91 E2 80 8D F0 9F 8D B3`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DDD1 200D D83C DF73`
Base64	`8J+nkeKAjfCfjbM=`
Decimal	`129489 8205 127859`
Introduced	Emoji 12.1 (2019)

Skin-tone variants

The 🧑‍🍳 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.

Keywords

chef

Appears in these collections

Chef

How to type 🧑‍🍳

Windows — press Win + . and search “cook”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “chef”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f9d1 and Enter.
HTML — paste 🧑‍🍳.

How 🧑‍🍳 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🧑‍🍳Apple
🧑‍🍳Segoe
🧑‍🍳Noto
🧑‍🍳System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🧑‍🍳 cook emoji mean?+

🧑‍🍳 is the cook emoji, tagged chef. Jobs and identities, and the largest subgroup in People & Body. Almost all of them are ZWJ sequences: 👨‍🍳 is literally a man plus a zero-width joiner plus 🍳. The professions arrived in 2016 as man and woman pairs, with gender-neutral versions following in 2019. Used for introductions, career news and dressing-up jokes.

What is the Unicode code for 🧑‍🍳?+

cook is U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F373. In HTML that is 🧑‍🍳, in CSS \1F9D1\200D\1F373, and in JavaScript \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F373}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🧑‍🍳 emoji added?+

cook got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.1 (2019). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Related emojis

More emojis from Roles & Careers in People & Body.

Added in Emoji 12.1 (2019)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧑‍🍳 cook.