crab Emoji
🦀 · U+1F980 · Emoji 1.0
What does the crab emoji mean?
Literally, 🦀 represents a crab, a marine animal with a hard shell and claws, whereas figuratively and in slang, it symbolizes something or someone that is seen as annoying, pesky, or sidestepping an issue, often used to express frustration or irritation, and can also be used to represent the astrological sign Cancer, which is symbolized by the crab, or to talk about seafood, particularly in a culinary context, with its meaning varying based on the conversation and cultural background.
crab emoji examples
- just saw a huge crab at the beach 🦀
- stop being a crab and just ask her out already 🦀
How to copy the crab emoji
To use the crab emoji, tap the Copy button above, then paste it (long-press then Paste on mobile, or Ctrl+V / Cmd+V on desktop) anywhere you can type: messages, captions, usernames, bios and documents. It copies the real Unicode character (U+1F980), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
Also known as
crab emoji on different platforms
How the crab emoji looks on your device and in the openly licensed sets that include it (Twitter / X (Twemoji), Google Noto Color Emoji, OpenMoji). See image credits.
crab Emoji Details
| Emoji | 🦀 |
| Name | crab |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Codepoints | U+1F980 |
| Shortcode | :crab: |
| Sources | Unicode emoji list · codepoints.net |
| Emoji version | 1.0 (2015) |
crab Emoji FAQ
It is U+1F980, added in Emoji 1.0 (2015). On GitHub, Slack and Discord you can type it as :crab:.
People also search for the crab emoji as cancer, zodiac.