The kitchen knife emoji is the digital chef’s knife: sharp, shiny, and a little dramatic. On Apple devices, it looks like a sleek steel blade with a dark handle dotted by silver rivets, angled diagonally like it’s mid-chop on a cutting board. It screams culinary energy—think slice, dice, mince, repeat—without needing a single cooking show voice-over. You can practically hear the chop-chop ASMR.
In texts, it’s big for meal-prep flexes, recipe group chats, and posts where you’re about to julienne your budget or slice through a to-do list. Food creators drop it in captions faster than an onion gets diced on TikTok, and reality-TV fans use it with a wink for Top Chef and Chopped references. It also moonlights for metaphors: cutting toxic ties, slashing prices, sharpening your skills, or carving out time for self-care.
Culturally, it taps into slasher-movie season with Halloween combos and sardonic vibes—picture a cheerful I’m fine :) paired with a single, menacing blade for comedic melodrama. Stan Twitter and anime fans lean into the yandere trope, while Knife Cat memes give it chaotic-gremlin energy. It can read protective or feral in a flirty way (I got your back, don’t test me), but it’s usually playful, not literal—more Gordon Ramsay sass than actual menace.
Definition
A hocho is a kitchen knife, specifically a Japanese kitchen knife. An all-purpose utility knife. Used to cut many different types of food when preparing a meal. Generally a negative emoji used to convey extreme anger or frustration with something or someone. Used to communicate the desire to do harm to someone. To profess being stabbed in the back (to betray someone).
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
914 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:hocho:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Hocho
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Tool Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Tool Symbols
Names & Annotations
HOCHO Old name: KNIFE = japanese kitchen knife
Symbol Information
U+1F52A proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-4FA
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[包丁]
KDDI
#114 ナイフ 「naifu」 U+E57F SJIS-F79C JIS-777C
Softbank
[包丁]
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🔪
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🔪
Decimal HTML Entity
🔪
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🔪
Hex Code Point(s)
1f52a
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F52A
Decimal Code Point(s)
128298
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0xAA
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 94 AA
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 224 252
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDD2A
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddd2a
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56618
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F52A
UTF-32 Hex
01F52A
UTF-32 Dec
128298
Python Src
u"\U0001F52A"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x94\xaa"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDD2A"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
