People & Body · Emoji 4.0
👨🍳Man Cook Emoji
Generally, it just means a man is cooking or that something relates to cooking. People use it to add a fun, visual element to conversations about food.
The 👨🍳 emoji represents a man who’s a cook or chef.
- Unicode
- U+1F468 U+200D U+1F373
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :male-
cook: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 👨🍳 Man Cook emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
02 — Platforms
Man Cook emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F468 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your man cook looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Man Cook emoji skin tones
👨🍳 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Man Cook 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 :male-cook:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F468.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👨🍳 Man Cook emoji
No picker to hand? The man cook can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Man Cook emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the man cook as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Man Cook emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man cook 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.
08 — 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.
09 — Around the world
What 👨🍳 means in other countries
Same “cooking” slang as the rest of the set — literal chef by default, high praise in casual internet use.
Actual chef, or someone preparing food in a home or professional setting
Compliment for doing something impressive, clever, or unexpectedly well done
Reads as plainly literal here, with no slang or hidden meaning implied
Before you send it: Safe everywhere; just know a younger audience may read it as praise rather than literal cooking.
10 — Apps
What 👨🍳 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F468, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — Difference
👨🍳 vs 👳♂️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man Cook
Code: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F373 · added 2016
Shortcode: :male-cook:
Generally, it just means a man is cooking or that something relates to cooking.
Unicode name: Man Wearing Turban
Code: U+1F473 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-wearing-turban:
Generally, it means a man with a turban.
13 — History
Where the 👨🍳 Man Cook emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 4.0, the man cook has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F468 U+200D 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.
Man Cook was approved as U+1F468 U+200D U+1F373 and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). 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, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ