Crab Emoji 🦀

Crab
U+1F980
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Emoji Meaning

Crab is a squat crustacean animal with pincers. It's depicted as a reddish or orange crab (as if cooked and served) with an oval short body and ten legs, two of which are pincers. This emoji may be used to denote crab as a type of food or in various figurative meanings.

The symbol “Crab” is included in the “Animal symbols” subblock of the “Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 8.0 in 2015. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Marine Animal” subcategory of the “Animals & Nature” category.

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Unicode Name Crab
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Plane 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Subblock Animal symbols
Unicode Version 8.0 (2015)
Emoji Version 1.0 (2015)
Emoji Category Animals & Nature
Emoji Subcategory Marine Animal
Emoji Name Crab
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 1F980
Simple case change 1F980
Grapheme_Base +
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 F0 9F A6 80 240 159 166 128 4036994688 11110000 10011111 10100110 10000000
UTF-16BE D8 3E DD 80 216 62 221 128 3627998592 11011000 00111110 11011101 10000000
UTF-16LE 3E D8 80 DD 62 216 128 221 1054376157 00111110 11011000 10000000 11011101
UTF-32BE 00 01 F9 80 0 1 249 128 129408 00000000 00000001 11111001 10000000
UTF-32LE 80 F9 01 00 128 249 1 0 2163802368 10000000 11111001 00000001 00000000

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