U+1F374 "🍴" Fork and Knife Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🍴
U+1F374 "🍴" Fork and Knife is an ideogrammatic symbol representing a crossed fork and knife, commonly used to denote dining, eating, food, or restaurants in text and digital communication. Encompassed within the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, it was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0, providing a simple visual shorthand for meals, cutlery, or the act of eating. This character is widely supported across platforms and is often employed in menus, social media posts, or travel guides to indicate places to eat or culinary themes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F374 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Fork and Knife |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🍴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🍴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F374 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf74 |