cooking

🍳

cooking

Represents a frying pan with an egg cooking inside. It symbolizes cooking in general, breakfast time, or getting busy in the kitchen — basically “chef mode activated.”

  • Your friend texts you right after you wake up.

    Can’t talk, I’m making eggs 🍳

Subgroups
Unicode
U+1F373
Variant status
Fully-qualified
Emoji version
E0.6
Cross-cultural

In Japan, 🍳 is closely tied to “omurice” (omelet rice) or homemade breakfast scenes, often used in cute or comforting contexts — like showing warmth or care.

Heads-up

Sometimes used metaphorically to mean “I’m busy” or “things are heating up,” so make sure context is clear.

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