The fried shrimp emoji is your pocket-size tempura fix: a golden, craggy-coated prawn with a coral-pink tail that screams crunchy goodness. On Apple/iOS, it looks like a single curled tempura shrimp with a warm golden gradient, bumpy panko-style texture, and a tiny fanned tail—angled just enough to feel 3D and freshly lifted from the fryer. No plate, no skewer, just pure crispy energy you can almost hear crackle. If you’ve ever stared lovingly at ebi tempura, this one hits the spot.
Online, it’s the go-to for “Fry-day” puns, seafood cravings, and late-night sushi run announcements, but it also doubles as mood slang for “I’m fried” after work, class, or a gaming marathon. It pops up in “crispy take” replies, deep-fried meme aesthetics, and playful flexes about being “breaded” (aka stacked) because, well, breading. People pair it with 🍜, 🍱, 🥢, or 🍶 to signal izakaya plans, and sometimes with 🧂 or 🥣 to imply dipping in tentsuyu or sweet chili sauce. It even shows up in the eternal internet debate of shrimp vs prawn—UK vs US energy—delivered with a wink. Whether you’re plotting a bento upgrade or dropping a crunchy comeback, this emoji brings maximum snack-attack vibes.
Definition
A deep fried shrimp. A shrimp is a small (hence its name) sea creature that lives at the bottom of the ocean. They are grey in color when raw but turn an easily identifiable orange and white when cooked. There are many ways to cook shrimp, just ask Bubba Gump from the movie Forest Gump. One way to cook a shrimp is to bread it and deep fry it in a large vat of hot oil, such as was the case with this emoji.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
254 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:fried_shrimp:
Keywords
Shrimp, Fried, Seafood, Small, Fish
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Foods
Unicode Subcategory
Food Symbols
Names & Annotations
FRIED SHRIMP
Symbol Information
U+1F364 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-97F
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[エビフライ]
KDDI
#798 エビフライ 「ebifurai」 U+EB70 SJIS-F474 JIS-7B55
Softbank
[エビフライ]
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🍤
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🍤
Decimal HTML Entity
🍤
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🍤
Hex Code Point(s)
1f364
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F364
Decimal Code Point(s)
127844
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0xA4
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8D A4
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 215 244
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF64
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf64
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57188
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F364
UTF-32 Hex
01F364
UTF-32 Dec
127844
Python Src
u"\U0001F364"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8d\xa4"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF64"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
