Food & Drink · Emoji 0.6
🔪Kitchen Knife Emoji
Generally, the 🔪 emoji means “knife” or “cut.” People often use it when discussing food preparation or anything that involves a sharp blade.
The 🔪 emoji is a simple image of a kitchen knife.
- Unicode
- U+1F52A
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :hocho:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔪 Kitchen 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 kitchen emoji.
02 — Platforms
Kitchen Knife emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F52A. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Kitchen Knife emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :hocho:.
All emoji copy and paste →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+1F52A.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔪 Kitchen Knife emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F52A when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Kitchen Knife emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the kitchen 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
06 — Combinations
Kitchen Knife emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around kitchen 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 kitchen knife and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What 🔪 means in other countries
A basic cooking tool that reads very differently the moment it's aimed at a person instead of a recipe.
can be read as an implied threat, and has been treated as one in real harassment and legal cases
reads as completely literal, just a tool in the kitchen
messages combining it with a person emoji can get flagged for review
Before you send it: Keep it strictly to cooking talk — never send it in the same message as a person's name during an argument.
09 — Apps
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.
10 — Related
Emojis similar to the Kitchen Knife emoji
Same family (dishware) — often confused with kitchen knife or used alongside it.
Food & Drink →
Lime
Collections 🔪 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
11 — Difference
🔪 vs 🍴 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Kitchen Knife
Code: U+1F52A · added 2010
Shortcode: :hocho:
Generally, the 🔪 emoji means “knife” or “cut.”
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.
12 — History
Where the 🔪 Kitchen 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+1F52A 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 E57F.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Kitchen Knife was approved as U+1F52A 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.
13 — FAQ