🍴

🍴 U+1F374, 🍴 FORK AND KNIFE ← 🍳 [U+1F373] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🍵 → [U+1F375]

Translingual

Description

A silver fork and a knife.

Symbol

🍴

1. Cutlery.
   • 2019 September 3, PHfashionplug, Twitter‎^[1]:

     Missing items: (12 plates, 68 cups, 45 glasses, 145 forks 🍴, & 34 containers missing )😂😂😂

   • 2023 August 11, One Home, Twitter‎^[2]:

     🍴 Avoid plastic cutlery

2. (figuratively) Used generally as a pictogram to represent eating or dining.
   • 2017 November 23, “Naked dining in Paris 🍴”, in BBC News‎^[3]:

     [See title]

   • 2020 July 9, Anja Mernik, Twitter‎^[4]:

     Eating out in 2020🍴😷😂

   • 2023 August 11, “Everything you need to know about Bruce Springsteen at Citizens Bank Park”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer‎^[5]:

     🍴 What to eat and drink.

3. (cartography) Indicates a restaurant or other dining establishment.
   • 2024 April 24, Google Maps:

     [This web mapping application denotes food-related establishments with 🍴.]

   • 2024 April 24, OpenStreetMap:

     [This social mapping website uses a brown 🍴 to indicate a restaurant (except for fast food establishments) or food court.]

Usage notes

• Part of the ISO 7001 set of pictograms and symbols for public information by the International Organization for Standardization.

Synonyms

• 🍽 (“knife and fork surrounding a plate”)

Further reading

• “🍴 Fork and knife”, in Emojipedia, 2013–present.

Presentations of 🍴︎

Text style	Emoji style
🍴︎	🍴️
Note: Character's appearance may be different on each system. Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️