U+1F990 "🦐" Shrimp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦐
U+1F990 "🦐" Shrimp is a pictographic representation of a small, elongated crustacean with a curved body, tail fan, and prominent antennae, typically depicted in a reddish or pinkish hue. Included in the Emoji 1.0 standard in 2015 as part of the Unicode 8.0 release, this emoji is used to represent shrimp as a food item or seafood dish, as well as to symbolize marine life, the ocean, or the concept of being small yet abundant. Its design varies slightly across platforms, with some showing a more detailed, segmented shell and others a simpler, cartoonish form, but it consistently conveys a friendly and recognizable image of a shrimp.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F990 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Shrimp |
| 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 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD90 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F990 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd90 |