Oyster emoji 🦪
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F9AA
What 🦪 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Oyster 🦪 is tagged with these keywords: diving, pearl.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing diving or pearl in the emoji search brings up 🦪.
Oyster 🦪 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 12.0 (2019). 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 oyster.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type oyster.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type oyster in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type oyster.
Codes for developers
Oyster 🦪 is a single code point, U+1F9AA. 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+1F9AA | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦪 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦪 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9AA"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9AA} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%AA | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 AA |
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 oyster emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦪 "oyster" and links it with diving, pearl. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sea animals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the oyster emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
How do I type the oyster emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🦪 when you search for oyster.