Spouting whale Emoji

Animals

A cartoonish, light blue whale with its mouth closed, depicted in profile with a playful spray of water shooting from its blowhole. It captures the friendly look of sea life often found in children's illustrations.

Usage Context

Frequently used to represent the ocean, marine conservation, or a love for aquatic animals. Because of its cheerful appearance, it is often sent to signal a sense of calm or to pair with other water-themed icons like 🌊 or 🐟.

History

Part of the initial wave of Japanese carrier emoji sets, this icon was adopted into Unicode 6.0 in 2010. It was designed to add character to early mobile messaging, which previously relied on simple text-based kaomoji or basic icons to describe nature and wildlife.

Details

Glyph

🐳

Unicode

U+1F433

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f433:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC33;

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

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