Whale Emoji
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What does the Whale emoji mean?
1
A whale shown facing left with its tail raised, well suited to ocean-themed content or maritime storytelling.
2
This emoji shows a cheerful whale with a smiling face, closely resembling another variant — the whale with a jet of water. It’s rendered in blue, facing left with its mouth slightly open, and displayed full‑body with a gracefully curved tail.
Emoji can represent both a real whale in the wild and a playful character from an animated film. You can also use this smiley to suggest a plus-size person who loves being in the water.
Apple Name
- 🐋 Whale
Unicode Name
- 🐋 Whale
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Whale emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🐋 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F40B
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%90%8B |
| Punycode | xn--2n8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 90 8B |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC0B |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f40b |
| CSS | \01F40B |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F40B} |
| Perl | \x{1F40B} |
| HTML hex | 🐋 |
| HTML dec | 🐋 |