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🔪Kitchen Knife Emoji
🔪 is the kitchen knife emoji, U+1F52A, one of 7 in the Dishware set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for chef, cooking and hocho.
What 🔪 kitchen 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 chef, cooking and hocho 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+1F52A | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🔪 | |
| HTML decimal | 🔪 | |
| CSS | \1F52A | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F52A} | |
| Python | \U0001F52A | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD2A | |
| Rust | \u{1f52a} | |
| Swift | \u{1F52A} | |
| PHP | \u{1F52A} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%94%AA | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 AA | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD2A | |
| Base64 | 8J+Uqg== | |
| Decimal | 128298 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🔪
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “kitchen knife”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “chef”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f52aand 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 🔪 kitchen knife emoji mean?+
🔪 is the kitchen knife emoji, tagged chef, cooking and hocho. 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 🔪?+
kitchen knife is U+1F52A. In HTML that is 🔪, in CSS \1F52A, and in JavaScript \u{1F52A}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🔪 emoji added?+
kitchen 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 🔪 kitchen knife.