🦀 Crab emoji

Copy the 🦀 Crab emoji (U+1F980), an Animals & Nature emoji from Emoji 1.0 (2015). HTML 🦀 and CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes.

CLDR name: crab
Code point: U+1F980
Type: Single code point
Group: Animals & Nature
Subgroup: Animal marine
Introduced: Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Keywords: Cancer, zodiac

About this emoji

🦀 Crab is an emoji in the Animals & Nature group, animal marine subgroup, first released in Emoji 1.0 (2015).

CLDR, the Unicode project that supplies emoji names in many languages, gives it the English keywords Cancer and zodiac; that is what emoji keyboards match when you search.

It is a single code point, U+1F980, named CRAB in the Unicode standard.

Codes to copy

HTML decimal	`🦀`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`🦀`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\1F980";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\uD83E\uDD80"`Also valid in JSON. Characters above U+FFFF are written as a surrogate pair.
JavaScript (ES6)	`"\u{1F980}"`Code point escape; not valid in JSON.
Python	`"\U0001f980"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{CRAB}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%F0%9F%A6%80`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A6 80`4 bytes.
UTF-16	`D83E DD80`2 code units, which is what JavaScript length counts.

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