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:man_cook:U+1F468 U+200D U+1F373👨‍🍳\1F468\200D\1F373"\u{1F468}\u{200D}\u{1F373}"%F0%9F%91%A8%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8D%B3A man in a white chef's hat holding a pan. It stands for male chefs, home cooks, and any man in charge of the kitchen.
People send it about a partner making dinner, a dad at the grill, or a chef at work. It fits the โlet him cookโ meme too: give him room, he has a plan. Add ๐ ๐ฅฉ or ๐ณ to show what is on the menu.
Man cook ๐จโ๐ณ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins ๐จ man and ๐ณ cooking. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :man_cook:. People also look for it with words like โchefโ, โcookโ, or โmanโ.
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2016Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.