# 🧑‍🍳 Cook emoji

🧑‍🍳 Cook is an emoji in the jobs and roles set of People & body. It was added in Emoji 12.1 in 2019 and comes in five skin tones. Related words: chef.

- Emoji: 🧑‍🍳
- Unicode name: cook
- Code points: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F373
- Category: People & body, Jobs and roles
- Added: Emoji 12.1 (2019)
- GitHub shortcode: :cook:
- Keywords: chef, cook
- Page: https://emojichart.com/cook-emoji

## What it means

Depicts a person in a chef's uniform and tall white hat, ready to cook. It works well for chefs, cooks and home cooks, and for posts about recipes, kitchen work, dinner plans or a meal you made yourself.

## Skin tones

- 🧑🏻‍🍳 [Light skin tone](https://emojichart.com/cook-light-skin-tone-emoji.md): U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F373
- 🧑🏼‍🍳 [Medium-light skin tone](https://emojichart.com/cook-medium-light-skin-tone-emoji.md): U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F373
- 🧑🏽‍🍳 [Medium skin tone](https://emojichart.com/cook-medium-skin-tone-emoji.md): U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F373
- 🧑🏾‍🍳 [Medium-dark skin tone](https://emojichart.com/cook-medium-dark-skin-tone-emoji.md): U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F373
- 🧑🏿‍🍳 [Dark skin tone](https://emojichart.com/cook-dark-skin-tone-emoji.md): U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F373

## What it's made of

🧑‍🍳 is 3 code points that phones draw as one emoji:

1. 🧑 [Person](https://emojichart.com/person-emoji.md) (U+1F9D1)
2. Zero width joiner, which joins the pieces into one emoji (U+200D)
3. 🍳 [Cooking](https://emojichart.com/cooking-emoji.md) (U+1F373)

## How to type 🧑‍🍳

- iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “cook”.
- Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “cook”.
- Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “cook”.
- Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “cook”.
- GitHub: Type :cook: in an issue, pull request or comment.

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | chef | chef, cocinero, cocinillas, guisandero, pinche |
| Français (fr) | cuisinier (tous genres) | chef, cuisinier, cuisinier (tous genres), cuisinière |
| Deutsch (de) | Koch/Köchin | Koch/Köchin, Kochen |
| Italiano (it) | persona che cucina | chef, cuoco, persona che cucina |
| Português (pt) | chef de cozinha | chef, chef de cozinha, cozinheiro |
| Nederlands (nl) | kok | chef-kok, kok |
| Svenska (sv) | kock | kock, köksmästare |
| Polski (pl) | kucharz | kucharz, szef kuchni |
| Türkçe (tr) | aşçı | aşçı, yemek pişirme |
| Русский (ru) | повар | повар, шеф, шеф-повар |
| Українська (uk) | куховар | кухар, куховар, шеф |
| Ελληνικά (el) | σεφ | μάγειρας, σεφ |
| العربية (ar) | طاهي | شيف, طاه, طاهي, طباخ |
| עברית (he) | טבח/ית | טבח, טבח/ית, טבחית, שף, שפית |
| فارسی (fa) | آشپز | آشپز, سرآشپز |
| हिन्दी (hi) | बावर्ची | बावर्ची, रसोइया, शेफ़ |
| বাংলা (bn) | রাঁধুনী | রাঁধুনী, শেফ |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | koki | chef, koki |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | đầu bếp | đầu bếp, nấu ăn |
| ไทย (th) | กุ๊ก | กุ๊ก, เชฟ |
| 日本語 (ja) | コック | コック, シェフ, 料理 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 요리사 | 셰프, 요리사, 주방장 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 厨师 | 做饭, 厨师, 大厨 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 廚師 | 廚師, 烹飪 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): kok
- Akan (ak): kuk
- Albanian (sq): person kuzhinier
- Amharic (am): ማብሰል
- Armenian (hy): խոհարար
- Assamese (as): ৰান্ধনি
- Azerbaijani (az): aşpaz
- Bashkir (ba): ашнаҡсы
- Basque (eu): sukaldaria
- Belarusian (be): повар
- Bosnian (bs): kuhar
- Breton (br): keginer
- Bulgarian (bg): готвач
- Burmese (my): အချက်အပြုတ်
- Canadian French (fr-CA): chef
- Cantonese (yue): 廚師
- Cantonese (Simplified) (yue-Hans): 厨师
- Catalan (ca): cuiner
- Cherokee (chr): ᏗᏓᏍᏓᏴᎲᏍᎩ
- Chuvash (cv): повар
- Croatian (hr): šef kuhinje
- Czech (cs): kuchař/kuchařka
- Danish (da): kok
- Estonian (et): kokk
- European Portuguese (pt-PT): cozinheiro
- Faroese (fo): kokkur
- Filipino (fil): tagaluto
- Finnish (fi): kokki
- Galician (gl): profesional da cociña
- Georgian (ka): მზარეული
- Gujarati (gu): કૂક
- Hausa (ha): mai dafuwa
- Hungarian (hu): szakács / szakácsnő
- Icelandic (is): kokkur
- Igbo (ig): onye na-esi nri
- Irish (ga): cócaire
- Javanese (jv): mangsak
- Kannada (kn): ಅಡುಗೆಮಾಡುವವರು
- Kazakh (kk): аспаз
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): اسپاز
- Khmer (km): ចុងភៅ
- Konkani (kok): रांदपी
- Kyrgyz (ky): ашпозчу
- Lao (lo): ແຕ່ງກິນ
- Latvian (lv): vīrietis pavārs
- Ligurian (lij): cheugo
- Lithuanian (lt): gaminantis žmogus
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): kuchaŕ/kuchaŕka
- Macedonian (mk): готвач
- Malay (ms): tukang masak
- Malayalam (ml): അടുക്കളക്കാരൻ
- Marathi (mr): आचारी
- Mexican Spanish (es-MX): cocinero
- Mongolian (mn): хоол хийх
- Nepali (ne): भान्से
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Kuk
- Norwegian (no): kokk
- Odia (or): ରୋଷେୟା
- Oromo (om): nama nyaata bilcheessu
- Pashto (ps): اشپز
- Punjabi (pa): ਲਾਂਗਰੀ
- Quechua (qu): wayk’uq
- Romanian (ro): bucătar sau bucătăreasă
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): còcaire
- Serbian (sr): кувар
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): kuvar
- Shan (shn): မေႃမိုဝ်ႉ
- Sindhi (sd): باورچي
- Sinhala (si): අරක්කැමියා
- Slovak (sk): kuchár
- Slovenian (sl): kuharski mojster
- Somali (so): cunno kariye
- Swahili (sw): mpishi
- Tamil (ta): சமையல்காரர்
- Telugu (te): వంట చేసే వ్యక్తి
- Tigrinya (ti): አብሳሊ ምግቢ
- Tongan (to): tokotaha ngaohikai
- Turkmen (tk): aşpez
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): kuchar/ka
- Urdu (ur): باورچی
- Uzbek (uz): oshpaz
- Welsh (cy): person sy’n coginio
- Yoruba (yo): alásè
- Zulu (zu): pheka

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F373` |
| HTML | `🧑‍🍳` |
| CSS | `\1F9D1\200D\1F373` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F373}` |
| Python | `\U0001F9D1\u200D\U0001F373` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F A7 91 E2 80 8D F0 9F 8D B3` |
| UTF-16 | `D83E DDD1 200D D83C DF73` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8D%B3` |

## Questions

### What does the 🧑‍🍳 cook emoji mean?

Depicts a person in a chef's uniform and tall white hat, ready to cook. It works well for chefs, cooks and home cooks, and for posts about recipes, kitchen work, dinner plans or a meal you made yourself.

### How do I type the 🧑‍🍳 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “cook”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :cook:.

### When was the 🧑‍🍳 emoji added?

🧑‍🍳 was added in Emoji 12.1, released in 2019.

### What is the Unicode code point for 🧑‍🍳?

U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F373. In HTML you can write 🧑‍🍳, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F373}.

### Does 🧑‍🍳 come in different skin tones?

Yes. It comes in five skin tones: 🧑🏻‍🍳 light, 🧑🏼‍🍳 medium-light, 🧑🏽‍🍳 medium, 🧑🏾‍🍳 medium-dark and 🧑🏿‍🍳 dark.

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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/cook-emoji