Shrimp 🦐
History & usage: This emoji shows a shrimp and is commonly used in chats to talk about meals, the ocean, or playful dining plans. In everyday posts, people drop it with seafood pics, restaurant stories, or weekend cooking snaps, signaling appetite, travel vibes, or a lighthearted mood. In UI contexts, it can label menu items, indicate seafood options, or decorate reaction choices with a friendly, food‑focused vibe. It works well in messages that celebrate beach trips, markets, or picnic bites, and it can soften jokes or compliments about someone’s cooking. Accessibility note: for screen readers, provide alt text like “shrimp emoji” to describe its meaning. This helps all users understand the intent behind the icon in chat threads, captions, and buttons without needing extra context, keeping interactions inclusive and easy to scan across devices.
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Technical details
- Codepoint:
U+1F990 - General Category:
So - Age:
9.0 - Bidi Class:
ON - Block:
Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs - Script:
Common - UTF-8:
F0 9F A6 90 - UTF-16:
D83E DD90 - UTF-32:
0001F990 - HTML dec:
🦐 - HTML hex:
🦐 - JS escape:
\u{1F990} - Python \N{}:
\N{SHRIMP} - Python \U:
\U0001F990 - URL-encoded:
%F0%9F%A6%90 - CSS escape:
\1F990
How to type / insert
Fast copy: click the Copy button near the top of this page.
By codepoint: in many editors and IDEs, you can insert via the Unicode code U+1F990 or a built‑in character picker.
HTML: use the numeric entity 🦐 (hex) or 🦐 (decimal) when an HTML entity is needed.
Compatibility & troubleshooting
Font support: if the symbol does not render, the current font likely lacks this codepoint. Choose a font with broad Unicode coverage or allow a fallback font.
Web pages: ensure your CSS font stack includes a general fallback; avoid relying on images for common symbols to preserve accessibility and copyability.