Tropical fish emoji 🐠
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F420
What 🐠 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🐠 are animal, fish, fishes, tropical. They show what people use it for.
Search for animal or fish on your emoji keyboard and 🐠 is among the results.
You will find 🐠 among the sea animals (18 emoji), part of animals & nature with 161 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🐡 🦈 🐙 🐚.
Will 🐠 show on my friend's phone?
One of the first emoji ever: 🐠 is part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, the set that started on Japanese phones. It shows everywhere.
How to type 🐠
Search for tropical fish in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🐠.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type tropical fish.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type tropical fish in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type tropical fish.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🐠 is one code point (U+1F420), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F420 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐠 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐠 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F420"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F420} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%A0 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 A0 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🐠 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | tropical fish |
| Português | peixe tropical |
| Español | pez tropical |
| Italiano | pesce tropicale |
| Français | poisson tropical |
| Deutsch | Tropenfisch |
| Türkçe | tropikal balık |
| Bahasa Indonesia | ikan tropis |
| Polski | ryba tropikalna |
| Русский | тропическая рыба |
| 日本語 | 熱帯魚 |
| 한국어 | 열대어 |
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What does the tropical fish emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐠 "tropical fish" and links it with animal, fish, fishes, tropical. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sea animals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the tropical fish emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the tropical fish emoji?
Search for tropical fish in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🐠.