🦪Oyster Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you an oyster emoji, they're just referencing the shellfish itself. It's a fun way to signal that they're thinking about food or maybe a nice meal.
The 🦪 emoji represents an oyster.
- Unicode
- U+1F9AA
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :oyster:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦪 Oyster emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Oyster emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the oyster as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Oyster 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 :oyster:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the oyster, code point U+1F9AA.
How to type the 🦪 Oyster emoji
No picker to hand? The oyster can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Oyster emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the oyster 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
Oyster emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around oyster 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🦪 means in other countries
Carries a mild flirtatious undertone in Western dating contexts, thanks to its long-standing reputation as an aphrodisiac.
Tied to romantic dinners and seduction folklore going back to Casanova.
Can read as a suggestive nudge rather than a plain food reference.
Just means oysters on the menu, no innuendo implied.
Before you send it: Fine in food talk with friends; in a flirty one-on-one it may land as more than a menu item.
What 🦪 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9AA, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🦪 Oyster emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F9AA 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.
Oyster was approved as U+1F9AA and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). 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.