🦈 Shark is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F988 and it was released in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🦈 Shark mean?
The 🦈 Shark emoji belongs to the marine life group of the Animals & Nature category. You will see it in chats and captions related to animal and fish. Shark has been available since Emoji 3.0 (2016), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :shark: to insert it.
Shark emoji codes
| Emoji | 🦈 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F988 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🦈 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🦈 |
| CSS | \1F988 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F988} |
| Python | \U0001F988 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A6%88 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 88 |
| Shortcode | :shark: |
How to type 🦈 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “shark”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “shark”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “shark”.
- HTML: write
🦈in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Shark keywords
- animal
- fish
Frequently asked questions
What does 🦈 mean?
The 🦈 Shark emoji belongs to the marine life group of the Animals & Nature category. You will see it in chats and captions related to animal and fish. Shark has been available since Emoji 3.0 (2016), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :shark: to insert it.
How do I copy and paste the Shark emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🦈 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🦈 Shark added to Unicode?
Shark was released as part of Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
Related Marine Life emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.