Man cook emoji ๐จโ๐ณ
Emoji 4.0 (2016) ยท U+1F468 U+200D U+1F373
Skin tones ยท Tap a tone to copy it.
What ๐จโ๐ณ means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Man cook ๐จโ๐ณ is tagged with these keywords: chef, cook, man.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing chef or cook in the emoji search brings up ๐จโ๐ณ.
Man cook ๐จโ๐ณ is one of 82 emoji in the jobs and roles subgroup of people & body (390 emoji), next to ๐ฉโ๐ณ ๐งโ๐ง ๐จโ๐ง ๐ฉโ๐ง.
๐จโ๐ณ comes in 5 skin tones, from ๐จ๐ปโ๐ณ to ๐จ๐ฟโ๐ณ, plus the default yellow. Tap a tone above to copy it.
Will ๐จโ๐ณ show on my friend's phone?
๐จโ๐ณ arrived with Emoji 4.0 in 2016. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
What ๐จโ๐ณ is made of
๐จโ๐ณ is a sequence of 2 emoji: ๐จ man + ๐ณ cooking, glued together with the invisible zero width joiner (U+200D). A phone that does not know the combination shows the parts side by side.
How to type ๐จโ๐ณ
Any emoji picker finds ๐จโ๐ณ when you search for man cook.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type man cook.
- Mac: press Ctrl+โ+Space and type man cook in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type man cook.
Codes for developers
Man cook ๐จโ๐ณ is written with 3 code points: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F373. In UTF-8 it takes 11 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 5.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F468 U+200D U+1F373 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 👨‍🍳 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 👨‍🍳 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F468 \200D \1F373"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F468}\u200D\u{1F373} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%91%A8%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8D%B3 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 A8 E2 80 8D F0 9F 8D B3 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of ๐จโ๐ณ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | man cook |
| Portuguรชs | cozinheiro |
| Espaรฑol | chef hombre |
| Italiano | cuoco |
| Franรงais | cuisinier |
| Deutsch | Koch |
| Tรผrkรงe | erkek aลรงฤฑ |
| Bahasa Indonesia | koki pria |
| Polski | mฤลผczyzna kucharz |
| ะ ัััะบะธะน | ะผัะถัะธะฝะฐ-ะฟะพะฒะฐั |
| ๆฅๆฌ่ช | ็ทๆงใฎใณใใฏ |
| ํ๊ตญ์ด | ๋จ์ ์๋ฆฌ์ฌ |
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What does the man cook emoji mean?
Unicode calls ๐จโ๐ณ "man cook" and links it with chef, cook, man. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the jobs and roles subgroup of people & body.
When was the man cook emoji added?
In Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
Can I change the skin tone of ๐จโ๐ณ?
Yes. ๐จโ๐ณ has these skin tones: ๐จ๐ปโ๐ณ ๐จ๐ผโ๐ณ ๐จ๐ฝโ๐ณ ๐จ๐พโ๐ณ ๐จ๐ฟโ๐ณ. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.