Kitchen knife emoji meaning

The kitchen knife emoji shows a classic chef's knife, a common tool used in the kitchen for chopping and preparing food. It is often linked to topics like cooking, food preparation, or discussions about kitchen equipment. While it is mostly associated with culinary activities, it can sometimes carry a more serious or threatening meaning depending on the situation in which it is used. This makes its interpretation highly dependent on the context of a conversation.

The kitchen knife emoji is also known as Knife Emoji, Hocho Emoji.

The kitchen knife emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09026