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🍽️Fork And Knife With Plate Emoji
🍽️ fork and knife with plate — U+1F37D U+FE0F, added in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Unicode groups it with the other 7 dishware emojis under Food & Drink.
What 🍽️ fork and knife with plate means
Cutlery and vessels, small but useful. 🍴 and 🍽️ mark a meal or a restaurant, and 🍽️ has picked up a second sense from “ate” as praise — did something extremely well. 🔪 signals cooking prep or a joke threat, tone depending entirely on context. Unicode's formal name for U+1F52A is HOCHO, the Japanese word for kitchen knife.
Unicode tags this one cooking, dinner and eat and files it under Food & Drink → Dishware.
Copy variants
fork and knife with plate carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🍽️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🍽U+1F37Dfork and knife with plate
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F37D U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🍽️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🍽️ | |
| CSS | \1F37D\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F37D}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F37D\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDF7D\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f37d}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F37D}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F37D}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8D%BD%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8D BD EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DF7D FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Nve+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 127869 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🍽️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “fork and knife with plate”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “cooking”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f37dand 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 🍽️ fork and knife with plate emoji mean?+
🍽️ is the fork and knife with plate emoji, tagged cooking, dinner and eat. Cutlery and vessels, small but useful. 🍴 and 🍽️ mark a meal or a restaurant, and 🍽️ has picked up a second sense from “ate” as praise — did something extremely well. 🔪 signals cooking prep or a joke threat, tone depending entirely on context. Unicode's formal name for U+1F52A is HOCHO, the Japanese word for kitchen knife.
What is the Unicode code for 🍽️?+
fork and knife with plate is U+1F37D U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🍽️, in CSS \1F37D\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F37D}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🍽️ emoji added?+
fork and knife with plate got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). 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 Dishware in Food & Drink.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🍽️ fork and knife with plate.