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🦀 Crab Emoji

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 , the Crab, in the Western zodiac.

Not to be confused with .

Facebook’s pincers have black tips.

Emoji	🦀
Unicode Name	Crab
Apple Name	Crab
Also Known As
Codepoints	U+1F980

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Language	Name
Bengali	ককড
Danish	krabbe
German	krebs
English	crab
Spanish	cangrejo
French	crabe
Hindi	करकट
Italian	granchio
Japanese	カニ
Korean	꽃게
Marathi	खकड
Malay	ketam
Dutch	krab
Norwegian	krabbe
Portuguese	caranguejo
Swedish	krabba
Tamil	நணட
Telugu	పత
Chinese	蟹