Whale Emoji 🐋

U+1F40B

Emoji Meaning

Whale, a huge mammal that lives underwater. It's usually pictured in light blue colour, looking in the left direction. Whales have spectacular bodies, with a long massive tail and a white large flat belly.

The symbol “Whale” is included in the “Animal symbols” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Marine Animal” subcategory of the “Animals & Nature” category.

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Unicode Name	Whale
Unicode Number
Plane	1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Subblock	Animal symbols
Unicode Version	6.0 (2010)
Emoji Version	1.0 (2015)
Emoji Category	Animals & Nature
Emoji Subcategory	Marine Animal
Emoji Name	Whale

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	1F40B
Simple case change	1F40B
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	F0 9F 90 8B	240 159 144 139	4036989067	11110000 10011111 10010000 10001011
UTF-16BE	D8 3D DC 0B	216 61 220 11	3627932683	11011000 00111101 11011100 00001011
UTF-16LE	3D D8 0B DC	61 216 11 220	1037568988	00111101 11011000 00001011 11011100
UTF-32BE	00 01 F4 0B	0 1 244 11	128011	00000000 00000001 11110100 00001011
UTF-32LE	0B F4 01 00	11 244 1 0	200540416	00001011 11110100 00000001 00000000