U+1F982 "🦂" Scorpion Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦂
U+1F982 "🦂" Scorpion is a pictographic representation of an arachnid with eight legs, a segmented tail, and prominent pincers, typically depicted in a side view. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and was added to the Unicode Standard in 2015 as part of Emoji 1.0, making it available across digital platforms for expressing themes of danger, resilience, or desert environments. The scorpion emoji is often used in contexts related to astrology (as the symbol for Scorpio), wildlife, or metaphors for sting or protection.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F982 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Scorpion |
| 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 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD82 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F982 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd82 |