Food & Drink · Emoji 0.6
🍴Fork and Knife Emoji
Generally, it just means someone is talking about food or eating. It’s a quick way to signal you’re thinking about a meal or that you want to eat something.
The 🍴 emoji represents a fork and knife.
- Unicode
- U+1F374
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :fork_
and_ knife: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🍴 Fork and Knife emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as knife emoji.
02 — Platforms
Fork and Knife emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the fork and knife has been drawn in 5 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Fork and Knife emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :fork_and_knife:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F374.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🍴 Fork and Knife emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F374 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Fork and Knife emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the fork and knife as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Fork and Knife emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around fork and knife for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🍴 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the fork and knife and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 🍴 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the fork and knife lands changes how it is taken.
09 — Related
Emojis similar to the Fork and Knife emoji
Same family (dishware) — often confused with fork and knife or used alongside it.
Food & Drink →
Lime
Collections 🍴 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
10 — Difference
🍴 vs 🍽️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Fork and Knife
Code: U+1F374 · added 2010
Shortcode: :fork_and_knife:
Generally, it just means someone is talking about food or eating.
Unicode name: Fork and Knife with Plate
Code: U+1F37D U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :knife_fork_plate:
Generally, the 🍽️ emoji just means food or a meal.
11 — History
Where the 🍴 Fork and Knife 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+1F374 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
NTT DoCoMo E66F, KDDI au E4AC, SoftBank E043.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Fork and Knife was approved as U+1F374 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.
12 — FAQ