U+1F990 · emoji since 2016
The shrimp is a small pink shellfish, curled and ready for the grill or the boil. It means seafood, prawns, and coastal cooking.
Playfully it also tags being on the smaller side, a tiny but mighty little shrimp.
In texting, 🦐 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🦐 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Shrimp emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the shrimp emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🦐 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.