Shrimp
Emoji 3.0 ยท Animals & Nature ยท :shrimp:
Also known as: food, shellfish, small
How it looks elsewhere
๐ฆ Your device
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Copy as code
What Shrimp Means
People reach for ๐ฆ when they mean food, shellfish, small. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Shrimp is one of the animals & nature emoji, alongside ๐ณ ๐ ๐ฌ ๐ซ ๐ฆญ and 12 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Shrimp was added in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ฆ is the single code point U+1F990, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :shrimp:.
How To Use ๐ฆ
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :shrimp: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.