Crab Emoji 🦀
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.
| 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 |
