U+1F980 "🦀" Crab Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦀
U+1F980 "🦀" Crab is a pictorial symbol representing a crab, a crustacean with a broad carapace, ten legs, and pincers, commonly found along seashores and in oceans worldwide. This character is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is often used in digital communication to denote themes like marine life, seafood, or astrological signs such as Cancer. It can also convey moods or ideas associated with the creature’s behavior, such as being tenacious or irritable, adding expressive nuance to text messages and social media posts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F980 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Crab |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🦀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🦀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F980 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd80 |