🦀 Crab
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Emoji Meaning
1
A reddish-orange crustacean often spotted along shorelines and coral reefs. Commonly referenced in marine-life contexts and widely used as the symbol of the astrological sign Cancer.
2
A clawed, paddle-footed sea creature you’ll often spot on piers and along the seashore. Larger crabs are commonly served as food. The emoji shows a top-down view in reddish tones.
An edible sea crustacean, the crab emoji is used in messages to convey various ideas: food, living creature, crab, seafood.
Apple Name
- 🦀 Crab
Unicode Name
- 🦀 Crab
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🦀 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F980
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%80 |
| Punycode | xn--zs9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 80 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDD80 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f980 |
| CSS | \01F980 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F980} |
| Perl | \x{1F980} |
| HTML hex | 🦀 |
| HTML dec | 🦀 |