Fish Emoji
Animals
A side-profile depiction of a blue-scaled fish, typically shown facing left with its fins fanned out. It looks like a standard freshwater catch, similar to a trout or a bass.
Usage Context
Used to talk about marine life, fishing trips, or sushi dinners. It frequently appears alongside the fishing pole or tropical fish emojis. Beyond nature, it is often used to signal zodiac signs or to describe someone as 'feeling like a fish out of water.'
History
This emoji arrived in the Unicode 6.0 update in 2010. It was part of the early wave of animal icons added to accommodate the expanding Japanese mobile carrier sets, which helped users communicate outdoor activities and meal choices via text message long before modern social media platforms.
Details
Glyph
🐟
Unicode
U+1F41F
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f41f:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Animals
Subcategory animal-marine
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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