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

&#xD83D;&#xDC1F;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-marine

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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