🦀 Crab is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F980 and it was released in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🦀 Crab mean?
The 🦀 Crab emoji belongs to the marine life group of the Animals & Nature category. People often use it in messages about cancer and zodiac. It was approved as part of Emoji 1.0 in 2015 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :crab: to insert it.
Crab emoji codes
| Emoji | 🦀 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F980 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🦀 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🦀 |
| CSS | \1F980 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F980} |
| Python | \U0001F980 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A6%80 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 80 |
| Shortcode | :crab: |
How to type 🦀 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “crab”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “crab”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “crab”.
- HTML: write
🦀in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Crab keywords
- cancer
- zodiac
Frequently asked questions
What does 🦀 mean?
The 🦀 Crab emoji belongs to the marine life group of the Animals & Nature category. People often use it in messages about cancer and zodiac. It was approved as part of Emoji 1.0 in 2015 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :crab: to insert it.
How do I copy and paste the Crab emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🦀 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🦀 Crab added to Unicode?
Crab was released as part of Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Related Marine Life emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.