🦈 Shark emoji

🦈 meaning - Shark

The apex predator is mostly depicted in grey color with a white abdomen, often in a curved position. Flaunting its frightening teeth, and pointy nose, tail and fin, the emoji is synonymous with the danger, a shark pose to swimmers and ocean explorers. Besides alerting someone of a shark attack, one can also send the 🦈 to tell someone has a glorious smile.

Copy and paste Shark emoji

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Use shortcode : :shark:
Note: - If you can't see the emoji, your device may not support Shark emoji but you can still use it on other platforms.

Representations : fish, shark can be represented by 🦈 emoji.

How Shark emoji appear on Apple, Google and other platforms?

but currently not supported in LG, HTC, Messenger, Mozilla

Shark may look different on every device. In the above images you can view how Shark emoji appears on different devices. Emoji of Shark can be used on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and many other platforms and OS but not supported in LG, HTC, Messenger, Mozilla. Some devices may show a blank box or X instead of Shark emoji as every device doesn't support each one of the emoji.

History of Shark emoji

This emoji was first introduced in Unicode 9.0 on 21st June, 2016 which was followed by addition to Emoji 3.0 in the same month and featured in September, 2014 iOS 10 update. Emoticons 1.2 update by Skype was the first to bring in Shark emoji on June 1, 2015. 1 year later JoyPixels, Twitter, Microsoft, Google released 🦈 emoji on June 21, 2016, July 13, 2016, August 2, 2016, August 22, 2016 respectively.

Shark in other languages

LanguageShort Name
Spanishpez, tiburón, tiburón
GermanHai, Haifisch, Hai
Frenchanimal, poisson, requin, requin
Russianакула
Italianaggressività, animale, pesce, squalo, squalo
Portuguesepeixe, tubarão, tubarão

What is the code of Shark emoji?

Unicode : U+1F988
Hex Code
Code Point(s):    1f988
HTML Entity:   🦈
UTF-8: F0 9F A6 88
UTF-8 (C): F0 9F A6 88
UTF-16: 0xd83edd88
UTF-16 (C): 0xD83E 0xDD88
UTF-32: 1F988
UTF-32 (C): 0x00001F988
Decimal Code
Code Point(s): 129416
HTML Entity: 🦈
UTF-16: 55358 56712
UTF-32: 129416
Octal Code
UTF-8: 360 237 246 210
Other developer codes:
PHP: "\xf0\x9f\xa6\x88"
Python: u"\U0001F988"
Java, C++, C: "0xD83E\uDD88"

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