🐋 Whale is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F40B and it was released in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🐋 Whale mean?
🐋 Whale is part of the “Marine Life” set in the Animals & Nature emoji category. People often use it in messages about animal, beach and ocean. Whale has been available since Emoji 1.0 (2015), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :whale2: to insert it.
Whale emoji codes
| Emoji | 🐋 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F40B |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🐋 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🐋 |
| CSS | \1F40B |
| JavaScript | \u{1F40B} |
| Python | \U0001F40B |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%90%8B |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 8B |
| Shortcode | :whale2: |
| Shortcode (alt) | :whale: |
How to type 🐋 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “whale”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “whale”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “whale”.
- HTML: write
🐋in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Whale keywords
- animal
- beach
- ocean
Frequently asked questions
What does 🐋 mean?
🐋 Whale is part of the “Marine Life” set in the Animals & Nature emoji category. People often use it in messages about animal, beach and ocean. Whale has been available since Emoji 1.0 (2015), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :whale2: to insert it.
How do I copy and paste the Whale 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 🐋 Whale added to Unicode?
Whale was released as part of Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Related Marine Life emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.