Oyster Emoji
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What does the Oyster emoji mean?
1
A split-open oyster cradling a pearl: a striking image used to evoke the wonders of sea life.
2
An image of a clam often eaten by people and prized for producing expensive pearls. In the emoji, this marine creature is shown in soft, light tones: its shell has a pale beige color, and the inside is rendered in a gentle hue. You can also spot a small pearl ball nestled inside.
This emoji is used in the literal sense when you want to indicate or depict an oyster, pearl, or shell in a message.
Apple Name
- 🦪 Oyster
Unicode Name
- 🦪 Oyster
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Oyster emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🦪 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9AA
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%AA |
| Punycode | xn--6t9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 AA |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDAA |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9aa |
| CSS | \01F9AA |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9AA} |
| Perl | \x{1F9AA} |
| HTML hex | 🦪 |
| HTML dec | 🦪 |