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🦈Shark Emoji
🦈 shark — U+1F988, added in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Unicode groups it with the other 18 marine life emojis under Animals & Nature.
What 🦈 shark 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 animal, fish and files it under Animals & Nature → Marine Life.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F988 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🦈 | |
| HTML decimal | 🦈 | |
| CSS | \1F988 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F988} | |
| Python | \U0001F988 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD88 | |
| Rust | \u{1f988} | |
| Swift | \u{1F988} | |
| PHP | \u{1F988} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A6%88 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 88 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD88 | |
| Base64 | 8J+miA== | |
| Decimal | 129416 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 3.0 (2016) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🦈
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “shark”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “animal”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f988and 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 🦈 shark emoji mean?+
🦈 is the shark emoji, tagged animal, fish. 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 🦈?+
shark is U+1F988. In HTML that is 🦈, in CSS \1F988, and in JavaScript \u{1F988}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🦈 emoji added?+
shark got its emoji presentation in Emoji 3.0 (2016). 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 3.0 (2016)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🦈 shark.