Shark emoji 🦈
Emoji 3.0 (2016) · U+1F988
What 🦈 means
Shark 🦈 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, fish.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or fish on your phone to find 🦈.
On the emoji keyboard, 🦈 sits with the sea animals (18 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🐙 🐚 🪸 🪼.
Will 🦈 show on my friend's phone?
Added in Emoji 3.0 (2016), 🦈 is old enough that all current phones, computers and apps show it.
How to type 🦈
To find 🦈 quickly, type shark into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type shark.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type shark in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type shark.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦈 as one code point, U+1F988: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F988 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦈 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦈 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F988"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F988} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%88 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 88 |
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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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the shark emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦈 "shark" and links it with animal, fish. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sea animals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the shark emoji added?
In Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the shark emoji?
To find 🦈 quickly, type shark into the emoji search.