Shrimp Emoji

Animals

A detailed illustration of a curved pink-and-orange shrimp, featuring a segmented tail, long sweeping antennae, and multiple small legs. It represents the crustacean as both a living sea creature and a common food item.

Usage Context

Frequently used to talk about seafood dishes, beach vacations, or marine life. It is often swapped in for humor when describing something small or insignificant, and is frequently paired with other aquatic icons like 🦀 or 🐟 to represent an ocean theme.

History

The shrimp emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Unicode 9.0. Its inclusion came during a broader push to diversify the variety of food and animal icons available to mobile users, reflecting the global popularity of crustacean-based cuisine.

Details

Glyph

🦐

Unicode

U+1F990

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f990:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD90;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-marine

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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