Shark Emoji 🦈

Shark
U+1F988
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Emoji Meaning

Shark, a predatory fish with a lot of teeth. It's usually depicted as a grey shark in full profile with white underside, three gills and a long pointed tail.

The symbol “Shark” is included in the “Animal symbols” subblock of the “Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 9.0 in 2016. In 2016, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 3.0 and added to the “Marine Animal” subcategory of the “Animals & Nature” category.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

Synonyms

great white shark.

Emoji 🦈 Shark on platforms

Unicode Name Shark
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Plane 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Subblock Animal symbols
Unicode Version 9.0 (2016)
Emoji Version 3.0 (2016)
Emoji Category Animals & Nature
Emoji Subcategory Marine Animal
Emoji Name Shark
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 1F988
Simple case change 1F988
Grapheme_Base +
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 F0 9F A6 88 240 159 166 136 4036994696 11110000 10011111 10100110 10001000
UTF-16BE D8 3E DD 88 216 62 221 136 3627998600 11011000 00111110 11011101 10001000
UTF-16LE 3E D8 88 DD 62 216 136 221 1054378205 00111110 11011000 10001000 11011101
UTF-32BE 00 01 F9 88 0 1 249 136 129416 00000000 00000001 11111001 10001000
UTF-32LE 88 F9 01 00 136 249 1 0 2298020096 10001000 11111001 00000001 00000000
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