🍳Cooking Emoji
Generally, the 🍳 emoji means a fried egg. It’s a simple way to represent breakfast or a dish that includes eggs.
The 🍳 emoji is basically a fried egg.
- Unicode
- U+1F373
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :fried_egg:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🍳 Cooking emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 11 of them.
Cooking emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F373 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your cooking looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Cooking emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :fried_egg:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F373.
How to type the 🍳 Cooking emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Cooking emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Cooking emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cooking for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🍳, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🍳 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🍳 means in other countries
Reads as literal cooking, and in slang “he’s cooking” means someone is doing impressively well.
“Cooking” or “cookin’” means performing at a high level or creating something great.
Straightforward kitchen activity.
Before you send it: Safe anywhere; a nice way to hype someone’s work as well as describe breakfast.
What 🍳 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 🍳 Cooking emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F373 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🍳 existed there as
KDDI au E4D1, SoftBank E147.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Cooking was approved as U+1F373 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🍳 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.