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🔪 Kitchen knife
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🔪 Emoji meaning
The knives are out! Chopping food, cooking, danger, conflict.
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🔪 Meaning
A Hocho is a Japanese kitchen knife. Used for mincing food. You are belligerent or something is terrifying. Known idioms are e.g. “to get one's knife out“ in disputes or “to stab someone in the back“ in betrayal.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Kitchen knife vs dagger; both sharp blades, one domestic, one weapon, visual distinction is small.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Kitchen knife” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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+ chef + kitchen
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- kitchen knife
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ kitchen knife
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ cooking + hocho + knife + tool + weapon
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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- hocho
