U+1F37D "🍽" Fork and Knife with Plate Unicode Character

U+1F37D "🍽" Fork and Knife with Plate is a pictographic symbol that depicts a place setting, consisting of a fork on the left, a knife on the right, and a plate in the center, all arranged as a single emoji. It is commonly used in digital communication to represent dining, meals, restaurants, or food culture in general, often conveying a sense of eating out, preparing to eat, or the concept of a full course meal. This character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of Emoji 1.0, and it is encoded in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. Its visual design can vary slightly across different platforms and operating systems, but its core meaning of food and dining remains consistent.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F37D
Version Added	7.0
Name	Fork and Knife with Plate
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 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83C 0xDF7D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F37D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83c\udf7d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other
Emoji	Yes
Extended Pictographic	Yes