Lobster emoji 🦞
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F99E
What 🦞 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Lobster 🦞 is tagged with these keywords: animal, bisque, claws, seafood.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing animal or bisque in the emoji search brings up 🦞.
Lobster 🦞 is one of 18 emoji in the sea animals subgroup of animals & nature (161 emoji), next to 🦐 🦑 🦪 🐳.
Will 🦞 show on my friend's phone?
🦞 was added in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
How to type 🦞
Any emoji picker finds 🦞 when you search for lobster.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type lobster.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type lobster in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type lobster.
Codes for developers
Lobster 🦞 is a single code point, U+1F99E. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F99E | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦞 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦞 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F99E"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F99E} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%9E | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 9E |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🦞 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the lobster emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦞 "lobster" and links it with animal, bisque, claws, seafood. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sea animals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the lobster emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
How do I type the lobster emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🦞 when you search for lobster.