cook: medium skin tone
Unicode: 1F9D1 1F3FD 200D 1F373
Description
An emoji showing a person with medium skin tone cooking. It typically depicts a chef or someone preparing food, holding a pan or stirring a pot.
Group:
People & Body > person-role
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Often conveys activity, creativity, effort, and care in food preparation. Can also represent passion for cooking or hospitality.
Backstory
This emoji combines standard person and skin tone modifiers (1F9D1 for person, 1F3FD for medium skin tone) with a zero width joiner (200D) and the cooking emoji (1F373) to create a single, unified 'person cooking' character. It was part of the expansion of gender and role-specific emojis in Unicode to better represent diverse activities.
Usage Examples
- Talking about cooking a meal: 'What's for dinner? I'll be cooking tonight! 🧑🏽🍳'
- Sharing a recipe or dish: 'Just made this delicious pasta! 🧑🏽🍳 Recipe coming soon.'
- Expressing love for culinary arts: 'Cooking is my passion. 🧑🏽🍳'
- Inviting someone for a meal: 'Come over, I'm cooking your favorite! 🧑🏽🍳'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly used in contexts of home cooking, professional culinary arts, or sharing food-related content.
East Asian culture:
Similar usage, often associated with home-cooked meals, comfort food, and hospitality, sometimes highlighting the care put into preparing food for others.