What 🦂 means
🦂 is the scorpion emoji, filed under Animals & Nature in the animal-bug subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.
It was added in Emoji 1.0 (2015) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 8.0 (2015).
How it is encoded
🦂 is a single code point, U+1F982.
It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.
Worth knowing
- 🦂 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🦂 look different on other phones?
Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point. The character you send is identical; Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp each render it in their own style.
How to type 🦂
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “scorpion”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “scorpion”.
Chat apps
:scorpion:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🦂Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🦂
HTML hex
🦂
CSS content
content: "\1F982";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A6%82
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.