Shrimp emoji 🦐
Emoji 3.0 (2016) · U+1F990
What 🦐 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🦐 are food, shellfish, small. They show what people use it for.
Search for food or shellfish on your emoji keyboard and 🦐 is among the results.
You will find 🦐 among the sea animals (18 emoji), part of animals & nature with 161 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🦑 🦪 🐳 🐋.
Will 🦐 show on my friend's phone?
🦐 has been around since Emoji 3.0 (2016), so it is safe to send to anyone.
How to type 🦐
Search for shrimp in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🦐.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type shrimp.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type shrimp in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type shrimp.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🦐 is one code point (U+1F990), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F990 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦐 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦐 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F990"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F990} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%90 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 90 |
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 shrimp emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦐 "shrimp" and links it with food, shellfish, small. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sea animals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the shrimp emoji added?
In Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the shrimp emoji?
Search for shrimp in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🦐.