Whale
🐋 is the whale emoji, part of Unicode's Animals & Nature group, added in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Unicode's keyword list links it with “animal”, “beach”, and “ocean”.
Where animal-marine emoji usually appear
DBEmoji editorial interpretationApplies to every emoji in this Unicode subgroup, not only this one.
- Ocean, aquarium, seafood, and diving posts
Technical details
Source: Unicode Consortium- Unicode name
- WHALE
- CLDR short name
- whale
- Codepoint
- U+1F40B
- Hex
- 1F40B
- Emoji version
- 1.0
- Unicode version
- 8.0
- First released
- 2015
- Unicode group
- Animals & Nature
- Unicode subgroup
- animal-marine
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built
GitHub shortcode
From GitHub's own emoji list (gemoji). Slack, Discord and other apps keep separate lists, so a code may differ there.
:whale2:Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDRanimal · beach · ocean · whale
Tags
How it looks
Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)
Download as image
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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork
Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of 🐋. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.
Questions people ask
- What does the 🐋 whale emoji mean?
- 🐋 is the whale emoji, part of Unicode's Animals & Nature group, added in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Unicode's keyword list links it with “animal”, “beach”, and “ocean”.
- What is the Unicode codepoint for 🐋?
- U+1F40B, named WHALE in the Unicode Standard.
- When was the 🐋 whale emoji released?
- It was added in Emoji 1.0, published in 2015, alongside Unicode 8.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
- How do I type 🐋 on my phone or computer?
- On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “whale”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🐋 from this page with one click.
- What is the shortcode for 🐋?
- On GitHub, type :whale2: and it turns into 🐋 — that code comes from GitHub's own emoji list. Slack, Discord and other apps keep their own shortcode lists; many codes match GitHub's, but check the app's emoji picker to be sure.