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Orca Emoji
orca is encoded at U+1FACD and shipped with Emoji 17.0 (2025). Unicode files it under Animals & Nature → Marine Life, alongside 17 related emojis.
What orca means
Ocean life splits into two jobs. The big animals — 🐳, 🐬, 🦈 — go on nature posts, aquarium trips and shark-week jokes, while 🦀, 🦞, 🦐 and 🦪 usually mean dinner rather than biology. 🦀 also carries the crab-rave sense of gleeful celebration at someone's misfortune. 🪸 coral joined in Emoji 14.0 and 🪼 jellyfish in 15.0.
Unicode tags this one marine, ocean and whale and files it under Animals & Nature → Marine Life.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FACD | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🫍 | |
| HTML decimal | 🫍 | |
| CSS | \1FACD | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FACD} | |
| Python | \U0001FACD | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDECD | |
| Rust | \u{1facd} | |
| Swift | \u{1FACD} | |
| PHP | \u{1FACD} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AB%8D | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AB 8D | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DECD | |
| Base64 | 8J+rjQ== | |
| Decimal | 129741 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 17.0 (2025) | |
Keywords
- marine
- ocean
- whale
Appears in these collections
How to type
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “orca”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “marine”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1facdand Enter. - HTML — paste
🫍.
How renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- Apple
- Segoe
- Noto
- System
Frequently asked questions
What does the orca emoji mean?+
is the orca emoji, tagged marine, ocean and whale. Ocean life splits into two jobs. The big animals — 🐳, 🐬, 🦈 — go on nature posts, aquarium trips and shark-week jokes, while 🦀, 🦞, 🦐 and 🦪 usually mean dinner rather than biology. 🦀 also carries the crab-rave sense of gleeful celebration at someone's misfortune. 🪸 coral joined in Emoji 14.0 and 🪼 jellyfish in 15.0.
What is the Unicode code for ?+
orca is U+1FACD. In HTML that is 🫍, in CSS \1FACD, and in JavaScript \u{1FACD}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the emoji added?+
orca got its emoji presentation in Emoji 17.0 (2025). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Marine Life in Animals & Nature.
Added in Emoji 17.0 (2025)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as orca.