🦐Shrimp Emoji
Generally, it just means something is really good or tasty, like shrimp! People use it to express excitement about food.
The 🦐 emoji is literally a shrimp.
- Unicode
- U+1F990
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :shrimp:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦐 Shrimp emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Shrimp emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F990 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your shrimp looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Shrimp emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :shrimp:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the shrimp, code point U+1F990.
How to type the 🦐 Shrimp emoji
No picker to hand? The shrimp can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Shrimp emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Shrimp emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around shrimp for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🦐, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🦐 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🦐 means in other countries
Mostly a food reference worldwide, though English slang also uses ‘shrimp’ as a jab about someone’s height.
Standard reference to shrimp dishes, grilling, or seafood boils.
Calling a person a ‘shrimp’ pokes fun at them for being short or small.
Before you send it: Fine for menus and recipes; skip it as a reply to a photo if height is a sensitive topic.
What 🦐 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the shrimp lands changes how it is taken.
🦐 vs 🍤 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Shrimp
Code: U+1F990 · added 2016
Shortcode: :shrimp:
Generally, it just means something is really good or tasty, like shrimp!
Unicode name: Fried Shrimp
Code: U+1F364 · added 2010
Shortcode: :fried_shrimp:
Generally, the 🍤 emoji just means fried shrimp.
Where the 🦐 Shrimp emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 3.0, the shrimp has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F990 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Shrimp was approved as U+1F990 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🦐 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.