A crab, a squat crustacean with pincers. Depicted as a reddish-orange crab (as cooked) shown from above, with a round, shelled body, shorted, tentacle-like eyes, and ten legs, the top two of which are large pincers.
May be used to represent crab as food or metaphorical senses of crab (e.g., crabby). Often used to represent ♋ Cancer, the Crab, in the Western zodiac.
Not to be confused with 🦞 Lobster.
Facebook’s pincers have black tips.
Crab was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
The 🦀 emote or crab emote is a small image of a red crab facing left, often used in online conversations and social media to express various emotions such as humor, frustration, or excitement. The emote gained popularity on Twitch, a live streaming platform, where it is often used to signify the end of something or someone's defeat.
- Relief & Free:
"I feel so free now that I've quit my toxic job 🦀" - Relief & Happy:
"I'm so happy that everything worked out in the end 🦀" - Frustration & Irritated:
"I'm so irritated by this loud construction noise outside 🦀"
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