Oyster 🦪

🦪 (U+1F9AA) is a standard Unicode character that you can copy and paste anywhere text is accepted. This page provides a concise reference with safe tips, internal links, and practical guidance so you can use it reliably across apps and platforms.

What it is and where it’s used: Oyster is part of the Symbols family (block: Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs). If you need styled or decorative alternatives, try our Fancy Text tool to generate compatible text that works in most modern interfaces.

History & usage: The OYSTER emoji depicts an oyster. It can be used to reference seafood in menus or recipes, to evoke coastal life in travel chats, or to symbolize treasure or rarity in playful messages. It also supports ideas about food, nature, or objects when talking about meals, markets, or marine topics. Use it to clarify meaning in casual conversations, but be careful about ambiguity in formal content. Consider roles in UI labels or captions where seafood, ocean themes, or gifts are involved. For accessibility, ensure surrounding text conveys the intended meaning and provide alt text or context as needed. Appearance can vary across platforms and fonts, so colors and details may differ; a monochrome fallback may appear where color emoji are not supported.

Copy and input: the quickest method is to copy the character here. You can also insert it by its codepoint U+1F9AA in many development tools or editors. Some operating systems provide a character viewer or input palette that lets you search by name or code and insert the glyph into documents.

Display and fallback: if you see an empty box (tofu) or a placeholder rectangle, the active font might not include this codepoint. Switching to a font with broader Unicode coverage or using a fallback font usually fixes the issue. On the web, ensure the page’s font stack includes a general‑purpose fallback.

Related references: browse the Categories for similar characters. When choosing a symbol, prefer the official codepoint for semantic clarity and better compatibility with search, copy, and accessibility tooling.

See our category page for related symbols.