Kitchen knife
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- Shortcode
:hocho:- Shortcode
:knife:- Unicode
U+1F52A- HTML
🔪- CSS
\1F52A- JavaScript
"\u{1F52A}"- URL
%F0%9F%94%AA
What ๐ช means
A chef's kitchen knife. It means cooking and chopping, and online it also means a joking threat or a betrayal.
Recipe posts use it for prep work. In chat, ๐ช adds mock menace: 'say that again ๐ช'. It also stands for 'stabbed in the back'.
In a real conflict, ๐ช can read as a genuine threat, so it lands badly when the tone is not clearly playful.
Facts
Kitchen knife ๐ช is an emoji in the food and drink category, under dishware. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :hocho: or :knife:. People also look for it with words like โchefโ, โcookingโ, โhochoโ, or โkitchenโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.