U+1F52A · emoji since 2010
The kitchen knife is a sharp chef's blade. Literally it means cooking, chopping, and prepping a meal, the tool every recipe needs.
Online it doubles for menace and dark humor, a playful threat that says do not test me, with a wink.
In texting, 🔪 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🔪 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Kitchen Knife emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the kitchen knife emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🔪 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
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