shrimp Emoji
🦐 · U+1F990 · Emoji 3.0
What does the shrimp emoji mean?
Playfulness and whimsy are conveyed by the 🦐 emoji, which literally represents a shrimp, a small, often edible crustacean. This emoji is used to symbolize seafood, particularly in the context of food and cuisine, and can also be used figuratively to describe something or someone as small or insignificant. In slang, it can be used to tease someone about being weak or timid.
shrimp emoji examples
- just had the best shrimp scampi at the new italian place 🦐
- you're such a shrimp compared to your brother 😂🦐
How to copy the shrimp emoji
To use the shrimp 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+1F990), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
Also known as
shrimp emoji on different platforms
How the shrimp 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.
shrimp Emoji Details
| Emoji | 🦐 |
| Name | shrimp |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Codepoints | U+1F990 |
| Shortcode | :shrimp: |
| Sources | Unicode emoji list · codepoints.net |
| Emoji version | 3.0 (2016) |
shrimp Emoji FAQ
It is U+1F990, added in Emoji 3.0 (2016). On GitHub, Slack and Discord you can type it as :shrimp:.
People also search for the shrimp emoji as food, shellfish, small.