Discussing Shark Week and ocean documentaries
Discussing Shark Week and ocean documentaries.
Animals & Nature
🦈 Shark Emoji
The 🦈 Shark emoji depicts a grey shark in profile, commonly used for sharks, Shark Week, ocean predators, or fierce determination.
QUICK FACTS
- Official name
- Shark
- Category
- Animals & Nature
- Subcategory
- Animal Marine
- Unicode
- U+1F988
- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Unicode version
- 17.0
What Does Mean?
The 🦈 Shark emoji depicts a shark. It is used during ocean wildlife discussions, Shark Week TV events, beach warnings, or metaphorically describing intense determination ('business shark').
Tone
FierceBoldIntenseMarine
Quick Meaning
The 🦈 Shark emoji depicts a grey shark in profile, commonly used for sharks, Shark Week, ocean predators, or fierce determination.
Use Cases
How People Use 🦈
Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.
Tagging ocean predator photography
Tagging ocean predator photography.
Describing intense competitive drive
Describing intense competitive drive.
Real Messages
🦈 Emoji Examples
Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 🦈.
“Tuning in for Shark Week documentaries 🦈”
“Respect the ocean and its wild creatures 🦈 🌊”
“Swimming with nurse sharks on vacation 🦈”
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Lookup Data
Names, Keywords and Search Terms
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Official Name
Shark
Subcategory: Animal MarineAliases & Common Names
- shark
- great white
- ocean predator
Keywords & Search Terms
- shark
- great white
- ocean
- sea
- predator
- fish
- marine
- danger
Developer Reference
🦈 Emoji Codes
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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F988Code points
U+1F988UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0x88UTF-16
\uD83E\uDD88HTML decimal entity
🦈HTML hexadecimal entity
🦈JavaScript escape
\u{1F988}CSS escape
\1F988 Python string
\U0001F988Emoji Styles
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Microsoft Fluent
MIT License
Google Noto
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
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FAQ
Questions About 🦈
Frequently asked questions about meaning, copying, PNG export, and Unicode data.
The 🦈 Shark emoji depicts a grey shark in profile, commonly used for sharks, Shark Week, ocean predators, or fierce determination.
Yes. When licensed artwork is available, choose a style and download 1× (128×128), 2× (256×256), 4× (512×512), or 8× (1024×1024) PNG artwork. EmojiMint shows the selected provider, background, and exact pixel dimensions before download.
🦈 represents Shark. It is used for wildlife, nature discussions, pets, and symbolic messaging.
The Unicode code point for 🦈 is U+1F988.
🦈 is usually the more general choice. 🐬 Dolphin is different because represents a playful air-breathing dolphin.
Use the copy button on this page to copy 🦈, or select the emoji character directly and copy it from your browser.