🧑‍🍳

Cook Emoji 🧑‍🍳

Chef's hat and apron on, ready to plate something — the cook emoji covers professional chefs and anyone just proud of what they made for dinner. It's used for cooking content across the board, from restaurant kitchens to a weeknight stir-fry.

What 🧑‍🍳 means

Shown from the shoulders up, this gender-neutral cook wears a white chef's uniform and holds a wooden ladle up near the left side of the face.

The 🧑‍🍳 Cook emoji refers to any person who's a chef, irrespective of gender and sex. It can also signify a taste for the good things, perfection, creativity in the kitchen, and passion for the art of cooking as well.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you're posting insta-good pictures of your freshly baked cookies or any other delicacy that you love flaunting, add 🧑‍🍳 into your captions.
Since 🧑‍🍳 is a gender-neutral emoji, it works as a great option especially if you are sensitive about your online identity.
If you're posting something about good food, restaurants, online food orders, anything gastronomy-related, you can pop in the 🧑‍🍳 emoji into those captions or on the posts itself.
🧑‍🍳 can also be used while sharing your delicious recipes, either with friends or generally on your social media stories.
You can also use 🧑‍🍳 while sharing a dish that someone else made.
If you're in the process of or beginning a cookery course or doing a college degree to qualify as a chef, then you can use 🧑‍🍳 while posting stuff about it.
🧑‍🍳 can also be used for sous chefs.

Other Names

🧑‍🍳 Chef
🧑‍🍳 Gender-Neutral Cook
🧑‍🍳 Professional
🧑‍🍳 Cooking
🧑‍🍳 Sous Chef
🧑‍🍳 Culinary Artist
🧑‍🍳 Cuisinier
🧑‍🍳 Food
🧑‍🍳 Dishes
🧑‍🍳 Saucier
🧑‍🍳 Head Cook
🧑‍🍳 Head Chef
🧑‍🍳 Gourmet Chef

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-role
Codepoints: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F373
Emoji version: Emoji 12.1
Shortcodes: :cook: Slack · Discord
Keywords: chef, cook
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.