Whale emoji 🐋
Emoji 1.0 (2015) · U+1F40B
What 🐋 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🐋 are animal, beach, ocean. They show what people use it for.
Search for animal or beach 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?
🐋 has been around since Emoji 1.0 (2015), so it is safe to send to anyone.
How to type 🐋
Search for whale in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🐋.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type whale.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type whale in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type whale.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🐋 is one code point (U+1F40B), 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+1F40B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐋 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐋 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F40B"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F40B} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%8B | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 8B |
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 whale emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐋 "whale" and links it with animal, beach, ocean. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sea animals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the whale emoji added?
In Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the whale emoji?
Search for whale in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🐋.