🦞Lobster Emoji
Generally, it just means someone is being dramatic or acting like they’re spoiled. It’s a playful way to show you're exaggerating a little.
The lobster emoji 🦞 represents a lobster, obviously!
- Unicode
- U+1F99E
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :lobster:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦞 Lobster emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Lobster emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F99E — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your lobster 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.
Lobster 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 :lobster:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F99E.
How to type the 🦞 Lobster emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F99E when there is no key at all.
Lobster emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the lobster as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Lobster emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around lobster 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
Reads as a food and luxury-dining reference everywhere, with a lighthearted nod to sunburn on the side.
Signals a seafood meal, often upscale, celebratory, or vacation-themed.
Also used as a joke about someone getting sunburned bright red.
Before you send it: Safe for celebration meals or beach-day sunburn jokes; no cultural caution is attached to it.
What 🦞 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the lobster lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🦞 Lobster emoji came from
It arrived with the 11.0 release of the standard, which dates the lobster to 2018.
Same character every time — U+1F99E 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.
Lobster was approved as U+1F99E and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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.