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🍴Fork And Knife Emoji
🍴 fork and knife is encoded at U+1F374 and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Food & Drink → Dishware, alongside 6 related emojis.
What 🍴 fork and knife 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 breakfast, breaky and cooking and files it under Food & Drink → Dishware.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F374 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🍴 | |
| HTML decimal | 🍴 | |
| CSS | \1F374 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F374} | |
| Python | \U0001F374 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDF74 | |
| Rust | \u{1f374} | |
| Swift | \u{1F374} | |
| PHP | \u{1F374} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8D%B4 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8D B4 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DF74 | |
| Base64 | 8J+NtA== | |
| Decimal | 127860 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🍴
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “fork and knife”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “breakfast”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f374and 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 emoji mean?+
🍴 is the fork and knife emoji, tagged breakfast, breaky and cooking. 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 is U+1F374. In HTML that is 🍴, in CSS \1F374, and in JavaScript \u{1F374}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🍴 emoji added?+
fork and knife got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🍴 fork and knife.