👨‍🍳 Man cook emoji

What is 👨‍🍳 called?

👨‍🍳 is called the Man cook emoji.

What does 👨‍🍳 mean?

👨‍🍳 is officially named man cook. It represents a man working as a cook, chef, kitchen worker, caterer, or food professional, with a frying pan identifying the role.

Use it for cooking, restaurants, recipes, catering, meal preparation, culinary school, kitchen shifts, or praising somebody’s food. It can describe a real job, a team, an appointment, a project, or a playful role in conversation without claiming that everyone in the profession looks alike. Related choices include 🍳 Cooking and 🥘 Shallow pan of food.

Other meanings

It can mean a chef, home cooking, a professional kitchen, catering, baking, preparing dinner, culinary skill, or experimenting with a recipe. In figurative use it may praise somebody for applying the practical qualities associated with that work.

Example Usage

He prepared the tasting menu 👨‍🍳

The male chef is leading tonight’s service 👨‍🍳

More details

Officially named man cook. Its fully qualified sequence is U+1F468 U+200D U+1F373. It was introduced in Emoji 4.0. The design represents the man form of this role. Its sequence uses a profession-related component joined to the person, man, or woman base where applicable.

Related emoji

Professions emojis

• 🧑‍⚕️ Health worker
• 👨‍⚕️ Man health worker
• 👩‍⚕️ Woman health worker
• 🧑‍🎓 Student

Visual description

A male-presenting figure appears with kitchen clothing and a frying pan containing food.

The pan marks active food preparation; a chef’s hat is not guaranteed on every platform. Clothing, colours, and the placement of the prop vary between platforms.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.