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animal-marine
Whale
1F40B · U+1F40B · 🐋
What it means
The Whale emoji 🐋 is used around ideas like animal, beach, ocean and whale.
Emoji render in the viewer’s own font, so the exact drawing differs between Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft — the sense above is what stays constant.
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Keywords
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Details
| Hexa | 1F40B |
|---|---|
| Codepoints | U+1F40B |
| HTML (hex) | 🐋 |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐋 |
| CLDR short name | whale |
| Emoji version | Emoji 1.0 · 2015 → |
| Qualification | fully-qualified |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Subcategory | animal-marine |
Timeline
- Emoji 1.0 · 2015Whale entered the standard as U+1F40B, establishing the codepoint still used today.
- TodayRendered across major platforms. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each draw it in their own style while preserving the same underlying character.
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