Food & Drink · Emoji 0.7
🍽️Fork and Knife with Plate Emoji
Generally, the 🍽️ emoji just means food or a meal. People use it to indicate they're talking about something to eat or a dining experience.
The 🍽️ emoji represents a plate, fork, and knife – basically everything you need for a meal.
- Unicode
- U+1F37D U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :knife_
fork_ plate: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🍽️ Fork and Knife with Plate 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 dinner plate emoji.
02 — Platforms
Fork and Knife with Plate emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the fork and knife with plate has been drawn in 3 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 with Plate emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :knife_fork_plate:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F37D.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🍽️ Fork and Knife with Plate emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Fork and Knife with Plate emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the fork and knife with plate as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 8 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Fork and Knife with Plate emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around fork and knife with plate 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 🍽️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F37D, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
09 — Related
Emojis similar to the Fork and Knife with Plate emoji
Same family (dishware) — often confused with fork and knife with plate 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 with Plate
Code: U+1F37D U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :knife_fork_plate:
Generally, the 🍽️ emoji just means food or a meal.
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.
11 — History
Where the 🍽️ Fork and Knife with Plate emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 0.7, the fork and knife with plate has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 12.
Same character every time — U+1F37D U+FE0F 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.
Fork and Knife with Plate was approved as U+1F37D U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🍽️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ