Food & Drink · Dishware
🔪 Kitchen Knife
- Emoji
- 🔪
- Unicode
- U+1F52A
- Shortcode
- :hocho:
- HTML code
- 🔪
- Approved in
- Unicode 6.0 (2010)
- Category
- Food & Drink
What does the 🔪 emoji mean?
The 🔪 emoji shows kitchen knife. It's part of Food & Drink (dishware) and is used to talk about chef, cooking, hocho and kitchen: what you're eating, cravings, recipes or plans with friends.
Keywords: chef, cooking, hocho, kitchen, knife, tool, weapon.
How 🔪 looks on each platform
Every company draws its own version of the same emoji.




Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp designs are copyrighted by each company, so we don't publish them as images. Open this page on an iPhone and the “Your device” box shows Apple's version; on a Samsung Galaxy, Samsung's.
How to type 🔪 on your keyboard
| iPhone | Open the keyboard, tap the emoji button 😀 and type “kitchen knife” in “Search Emoji”. |
|---|---|
| Android | On Gboard or the Samsung keyboard, tap the emoji icon and search “kitchen knife”. |
| Windows | Press Windows + . (period) and type “kitchen knife”. |
| Mac | Press Control + Command + Space and search “kitchen knife”. |
| Discord, Slack, GitHub | Type :hocho: |
🔪 emoji codes
| Official Unicode name | kitchen knife |
|---|---|
| Code points | U+1F52A |
| HTML decimal | 🔪 |
| HTML hex | 🔪 |
| CSS | \1F52A |
| JavaScript | \u{1F52A} |
| Shortcode | :hocho: |
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What does the 🔪 emoji mean?
The 🔪 emoji shows kitchen knife. It's part of Food & Drink (dishware) and is used to talk about chef, cooking, hocho and kitchen: what you're eating, cravings, recipes or plans with friends.
How do I copy and paste the kitchen knife emoji?
Tap Copy emoji on this page and paste it anywhere: WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, an email or a document. You can also find it on your phone's emoji keyboard by searching “kitchen knife”.
When was the 🔪 emoji released?
It was approved in Unicode 6.0, in 2010. Today it works on practically every phone and computer.