U+1F9AA "🦪" Oyster Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦪
U+1F9AA "🦪" Oyster is a pictographic representation of the bivalve mollusk, typically depicted with a rough, dark shell partially open to reveal a soft, beige interior, often containing a single pearl. Added to the Unicode Standard in 2019 as part of Emoji 12.0, this character is used in digital communication to symbolize seafood, the ocean, luxury, or the discovery of hidden value, as pearls are formed within oysters. Its design varies slightly across platforms, but it consistently conveys the idea of this edible shellfish, which is commonly served raw on the half shell.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9AA |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Oyster |
| 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 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDAA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddaa |