🦐 Shrimp
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Emoji Meaning
A bright red shrimp (appearing cooked) faces left, with long antennae, multiple legs, and a gracefully curled tail—ideal for sea-life imagery.
Shrimp are a very common seafood, often sold frozen in supermarkets. They come in a wide range of sizes and are crustaceans with a large, rounded tail full of meat. They are caught for food.
The emoji shows a lifelike shrimp: antennae, legs, and a tail that curls to the left. It’s used in many contexts, sometimes figuratively — for example, an awkward motorcycle landing is jokingly called a “shrimp.” The term can also describe a small or hunched person.
Also Known As
- 🦐 Prawn
Apple Name
- 🦐 Shrimp
Unicode Name
- 🦐 Shrimp
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🦐 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F990
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%90 |
| Punycode | xn--gt9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 90 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDD90 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f990 |
| CSS | \01F990 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F990} |
| Perl | \x{1F990} |
| HTML hex | 🦐 |
| HTML dec | 🦐 |
Tags: food, hellfish, hrimp, mall
Category: Animals & Nature