🦐

Shrimp Emoji 🦐

"Shrimp" and "prawn" get swapped freely at the table, but they're different suborders of crustacean, and this emoji draws the shrimp. In captions it mostly stays literal — a boil, a scampi order, a cocktail appetizer at a party — with the joke about somebody's size a distant second.

What 🦐 means

A curved shrimp with a reddish-orange outer shell, a pair of black eyes at one of the ends, two long antennas, and a couple of shorter walking legs and a few smaller swimming legs at the lower half.

The 🦐 Shrimp emoji signifies seafood and an independent marine creature too. However, other significances would be small stature and maybe even a sense of being incomplete in some way.

How and when to use it

If you're referring to someone who's short, then you can use 🦐 (given that the other person is okay and mutually offensive too).
Besides, if you're feeling incomplete in your life lately, then you can use 🦐 to emote that expression. For instance, "Man, I so need a puppy. Life feels so insufficient and lacking 🦐".
If you're inviting someone over for a seafood marathon or even an exclusively-seafood lunch, etc (and shrimp is deffo going to be there), then you can use 🦐 in such invites.
While sharing some delicious shrimp pictures or videos either from your own cooking scenes or as a repost, you can use 🦐 in the captions.
In case you're posting or reposting something that doesn't have 🍤 Fried Shrimp in it, you can always use 🦐 to indicate shrimp and a variant of the dish.

Other Names

🦐 Prawn
🦐 Raw Shrimp
🦐 Shrimp Meat
🦐 Caridean Shrimp
🦐 Decapod Crustacean
🦐 Giant Freshwater Shrimp
🦐 Pink Shrimp
🦐 Cherry Shrimp

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-marine
Codepoints: U+1F990
Emoji version: Emoji 3.0
Shortcodes: :shrimp:
Keywords: food, shellfish, shrimp, small

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.