shrimp

Group: Animals & nature · Subgroup: Animal marine · Emoji 3

Keywords

food
shellfish
shrimp
small

About this character

shrimp belongs to the Animals & nature group and is encoded at U+1F990. It was added in Unicode 3.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F990
Hex: 1F990
Decimal: 129424
HTML: 🦐
CSS: \1F990
JavaScript: \u{1F990}
Python: \U0001F990
UTF-8: F0 9F A6 90

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

spouting whale U+1F433
whale U+1F40B
dolphin U+1F42C
orca U+1FACD
seal U+1F9AD
fish U+1F41F
tropical fish U+1F420
blowfish U+1F421
shark U+1F988
octopus U+1F419
spiral shell U+1F41A
coral U+1FAB8
jellyfish U+1FABC
crab U+1F980
lobster U+1F99E
squid U+1F991
oyster U+1F9AA

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.