U+1F99E "🦞" Lobster Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦞
U+1F99E "🦞" Lobster is a pictographic representation of a marine crustacean, typically depicted in an orange or reddish hue with prominent claws, antennae, and a segmented tail. It was added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0, allowing it to be used in digital communication to symbolize seafood, coastal cuisine, luxury dining, or the animal itself. The character is commonly found in emoji keyboards and supports cross-platform text messaging and social media posts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F99E |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Lobster |
| 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 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F99E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd9e |