Lobster joins crab and shrimps in the food category. It is a lavish seafood beside a lucrative commodity in coastal areas. Originally black/blue, lobster’s color turns orange on cooking.
The emoji 🦞 is a digital nod to seafood enthusiasts. Often seen as a culinary delight, the emoji aptly symbolizes lobster dishes that are usually served with butter or creamy sauces. Yum!
However, it's not all about food. Maine, anyone? Yes, the state with a close relationship to lobsters adopts this emoji as a virtual ambassador. So if you're tweeting about your trip to Maine, don't forget to throw in a 🦞 or two. Headed to Massachusetts or Maryland? Use this emoji to flaunt your savvy knowledge of local cuisine.
Shift gears and you'll find this crustacean has a surprising link with the transgender community. The dual characteristics of the lobster—male and female traits in one—make it an unexpected yet poignant symbol for transgender representation.
This emoji didn't arrive without controversy. Initial designs received flak for anatomical inaccuracy, but corrective steps were taken. So rest assured that the lobster emoji now has the correct number of appendages.
Remember the hit TV show Friends? The episode where Phoebe declares that lobsters mate for life and Ross is Rachel's lobster? Yep, if you're trying to tell someone they're your forever, 🦞 is your go-to emoji.
Copy and paste 🦞 with one click!
Tweet with this button
Use shortcode : :lobster:
Note: - If you can't see the emoji, your device may not support Lobster emoji but you can still use it on other platforms.
Representations : bisque, claws, lobster, seafood can be represented by 🦞 emoji.
but currently not supported in HTC, Messenger, Mozilla, Emojidex
Lobster may look different on every device. In the above images you can view how Lobster emoji appears on different devices. Emoji of Lobster can be used on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and many other platforms and OS but not supported in HTC, Messenger, Mozilla, Emojidex. Some devices may show a blank box or X instead of Lobster emoji as every device doesn't support each one of the emoji.
This emoji was first introduced in Unicode 11.0 in June, 2018 and was a part of Emoji 11.0. Emoticons 1.2 update by Skype was the first to bring in Lobster emoji on June 1, 2015. 3 years later Twitter, Google, JoyPixels, Samsung released 🦞 emoji on June 5, 2018, August 6, 2018, August 21, 2018, August 24, 2018 respectively.
| Language | Short Name |
|---|---|
| Spanish | langosta, marisco, pinzas, langosta |
| German | Hummer, Meeresfrüchte, Hummer |
| French | bisque, fruits de mer, homard, pinces, homard |
| Russian | клешни, лангуст, лобстер, морепродукты, омар, омар |
| Italian | aragosta, chele, crostacei, zuppa, aragosta |
| Portuguese | bisque, caldo, fruto do mar, garras, lagosta, lagosta |
| Unicode : | U+1F99E |
| Hex Code | |
|---|---|
| Code Point(s): | 1f99e |
| HTML Entity: | 🦞 |
| UTF-8: | F0 9F A6 9E |
| UTF-8 (C): | F0 9F A6 9E |
| UTF-16: | 0xd83edd9e |
| UTF-16 (C): | 0xD83E 0xDD9E |
| UTF-32: | 1F99E |
| UTF-32 (C): | 0x00001F99E |
| Decimal Code | |
| Code Point(s): | 129438 |
| HTML Entity: | 🦞 |
| UTF-16: | 55358 56734 |
| UTF-32: | 129438 |
| Octal Code | |
| UTF-8: | 360 237 246 236 |
| Other developer codes: | |
| PHP: | "\xf0\x9f\xa6\x9e" |
| Python: | u"\U0001F99E" |
| Java, C++, C: | "0xD83E\uDD9E" |
