A lobster, a large crustacean with a prominent tail and pincers. Depicted as a reddish-orange lobster (as cooked) from above, with a long body and tail, short, tentacle-like eyes, and ten legs, the top of which are very large pincers.
Often used to represent lobster as food as well as in connection to the US state of Maine.
In its release year of 2018, Emojipedia’s original sample image was criticized as anatomically incorrect but was shortly after . That year, the transgender community the lobster as a symbol for their efforts for emoji.
Samsung, WhatsApp, and Facebook’s lobsters are depicted at an angle.
| Emoji | ๐ฆ |
| Unicode Name | Lobster |
| Apple Name | Lobster |
| Also Known As | |
| Codepoints | U+1F99E |
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | เฆเฆฒเฆฆ เฆเฆก |
| Danish | hummer |
| German | hummer |
| English | lobster |
| Spanish | langosta |
| French | homard |
| Hindi | เคเค เคฎเคเคฒ |
| Italian | aragosta |
| Japanese | ใถใชใฌใ |
| Korean | ๋ฐ๋ท๊ฐ์ฌ |
| Marathi | เคฒเคฌเคธเคเคฐ |
| Malay | udang karang |
| Dutch | kreeft |
| Norwegian | hummer |
| Portuguese | lagosta |
| Swedish | hummer |
| Tamil | เฎเฎเฎฒ เฎจเฎฃเฎ |
| Telugu | เฐฒเฐฌเฐธเฐเฐฐ |
| Chinese | ้พ่พ |