Shark Emoji
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What does the Shark emoji mean?
1
A left-facing shark illustration, typically shown in dark gray (though shades may vary). Often used as a playful visual to represent hunger.
2
It’s a large predatory fish that threatens not only smaller sea and ocean dwellers but people as well. Its mouth is lined with several rows of razor-sharp teeth — sharks are efficient, relentless hunters. In emoji form, it’s shown in gray with visible gills, a sharp dorsal fin and a pointed tail.
In messages, this emoji can mean not only a fish but also the word "shark" in a figurative sense — the top-notch, highly skilled professional. For example, a business shark.
Also Known As
- 🦈 Great White Shark
Apple Name
- 🦈 Shark
Unicode Name
- 🦈 Shark
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Shark emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🦈 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F988
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%88 |
| Punycode | xn--7s9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 88 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDD88 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f988 |
| CSS | \01F988 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F988} |
| Perl | \x{1F988} |
| HTML hex | 🦈 |
| HTML dec | 🦈 |