Coral emoji 🪸
Emoji 14.0 (2021) · U+1FAB8
What 🪸 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Coral 🪸 is tagged with these keywords: change, climate, ocean, reef, sea.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing change or climate in the emoji search brings up 🪸.
Coral 🪸 is one of 18 emoji in the sea animals subgroup of animals & nature (161 emoji), next to 🪼 🦀 🦞 🦐.
Will 🪸 show on my friend's phone?
🪸 is fairly new: Emoji 14.0 (2021). Phones and computers updated since 2022 usually show it; older ones may show an empty box.
How to type 🪸
Any emoji picker finds 🪸 when you search for coral.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type coral.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type coral in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type coral.
Codes for developers
Coral 🪸 is a single code point, U+1FAB8. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1FAB8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🪸 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🪸 | |
| CSS | content: "\1FAB8"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAB8} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%AA%B8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA B8 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🪸 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the coral emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🪸 "coral" and links it with change, climate, ocean, reef. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sea animals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the coral emoji added?
In Emoji 14.0, released in 2021. Only phones and computers updated since 2022 show it; older ones may show a box.
How do I type the coral emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🪸 when you search for coral.