Kitchen knife emoji 🔪
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F52A
What 🔪 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Kitchen knife 🔪 is tagged with these keywords: chef, cooking, hocho, kitchen, knife, tool, weapon.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing chef or cooking in the emoji search brings up 🔪.
Kitchen knife 🔪 is one of 7 emoji in the dishes and cutlery subgroup of food & drink (132 emoji), next to 🫙 🏺 🥢 🍽️.
Will 🔪 show on my friend's phone?
🔪 is one of the original emoji: it comes from the Japanese phone sets and is listed in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Every phone, computer and app shows it.
How to type 🔪
Any emoji picker finds 🔪 when you search for kitchen knife.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type kitchen knife.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type kitchen knife in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type kitchen knife.
Codes for developers
Kitchen knife 🔪 is a single code point, U+1F52A. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F52A | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🔪 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🔪 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F52A"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F52A} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%94%AA | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 AA |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🔪 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | kitchen knife |
| Português | faca de cozinha |
| Español | cuchillo de cocina |
| Italiano | coltello da cucina |
| Français | couteau de cuisine |
| Deutsch | Küchenmesser |
| Türkçe | mutfak bıçağı |
| Bahasa Indonesia | pisau dapur |
| Polski | nóż kuchenny |
| Русский | нож |
| 日本語 | 包丁 |
| 한국어 | 식칼 |
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All food & drink emoji →Questions people ask
What does the kitchen knife emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🔪 "kitchen knife" and links it with chef, cooking, hocho, kitchen. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the dishes and cutlery subgroup of food & drink.
When was the kitchen knife emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the kitchen knife emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🔪 when you search for kitchen knife.