Symbols · Emoji 0.6
♋️Cancer Emoji
Generally, the ♋️ emoji means “Cancer” – the zodiac sign associated with crabs and emotional sensitivity. It's often used to express feelings or relate to the Cancer personality traits.
The ♋️ emoji represents the Cancer zodiac sign.
- Unicode
- U+264B U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :cancer:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ♋️ Cancer emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
02 — Platforms
Cancer emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the cancer as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Cancer 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 :cancer:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+264B.
04 — How to type
How to type the ♋️ Cancer emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+264B when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Cancer 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Cancer emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cancer for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What ♋️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Around the world
What ♋️ means in other countries
Cancer marks the water sign for late June to late July; the shared name with the disease occasionally causes an awkward beat in unrelated chat.
Associated with emotional sensitivity and home in personality-trait readings.
The shared name can land oddly if the emoji appears near a serious medical topic.
Used as a simple birth-month identifier alongside other astrology signs in a profile.
Before you send it: Fine as a zodiac sign; avoid pairing it with anything health-related where the name overlap feels careless.
09 — Apps
What ♋️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the cancer lands changes how it is taken.
11 — History
Where the ♋️ Cancer emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+264B U+FE0F 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
♋️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E649, KDDI au E492, SoftBank E242.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Cancer was approved as U+264B U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
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.
12 — FAQ