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Crab

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.

Technical Information

Code: U+1F980
Category: Food & Drink
Sub Category: Food Marine
Unicode Version: 1
Keywords: sea, beach