whale

Group: Animals & nature · Subgroup: Animal marine · Emoji 1

Keywords

animal
beach
ocean
whale

About this character

whale belongs to the Animals & nature group and is encoded at U+1F40B. It was added in Unicode 1.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F40B
Hex: 1F40B
Decimal: 128011
HTML: 🐋
CSS: \1F40B
JavaScript: \u{1F40B}
Python: \U0001F40B
UTF-8: F0 9F 90 8B

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

spouting whale U+1F433 Similar
dolphin U+1F42C Similar
orca U+1FACD Similar
seal U+1F9AD Similar
fish U+1F41F Similar
tropical fish U+1F420 Similar
blowfish U+1F421 Similar
shark U+1F988 Similar
octopus U+1F419 Similar
spiral shell U+1F41A Similar
coral U+1FAB8 Similar
jellyfish U+1FABC Similar
crab U+1F980 Similar
lobster U+1F99E Similar
shrimp U+1F990 Similar
squid U+1F991 Similar
oyster U+1F9AA Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.