๐ฆ Crab
The Crab emoji shows a reddish-orange crab seen from above, with a rounded shell, stalked eyes, several jointed legs and two large pincers raised at the front. It means the sea creature and crab as seafood, from crab ...
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Meaning
The Crab emoji shows a reddish-orange crab seen from above, with a rounded shell, stalked eyes, several jointed legs and two large pincers raised at the front.
It means the sea creature and crab as seafood, from crab legs to a beach cookout. People also use it for the zodiac sign Cancer, for beach days and tide pools, and for the figurative "crabby" mood of someone grumpy. Online it is tied to the "crab rave" meme, where rows of dancing ๐ฆ celebrate something being gone. Programmers may also know it as the unofficial mascot of the Rust language.
The long-tailed relative with big claws is ๐ฆ Lobster, and a smaller curled shellfish is ๐ฆ Shrimp. The astrological symbol itself is โ Cancer. It was added in Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
How it is made
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๐ฆU+1F980CrabA single code point: nothing joined, nothing modified.
Codes
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- HTML entity
- 🦀
- HTML decimal
- 🦀
- CSS
- \1F980
- JavaScript
- \u{1F980}
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%A6%80
- PNG
- crab.png ยท 512ร512
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