| Emoji | 🦈 |
| Name | shark |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F988 |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Subcategory | Animal Marine |
| Emoji Version | 3 |
| Tags | animal, fish |
| Decimal Value | 129416 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F988 |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 🦈 / 🦈 |
The shark emoji represents an animal, plant, or natural phenomenon, commonly used literally (talking about the actual animal or plant) or figuratively as a personality/mood reference (many animals carry informal symbolic associations in casual conversation).
Category context: The Animals & Nature category spans wildlife, pets, insects, marine life, plants, and weather — among the most globally recognizable and culturally neutral emoji, since animals and nature are common reference points across languages.
Cataloged under Animal Marine within the Animals & Nature category, shark is the 115th of 160 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 3 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F988.
💡 Good to know: Animal emoji are frequently used figuratively rather than literally — for example, associating a person's behavior with a particular animal's stereotype in casual conversation.
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The shark emoji is Unicode U+1F988.
The shark emoji represents an animal, plant, or natural phenomenon, commonly used literally (talking about the actual animal or plant) or figuratively as a personality/mood reference (many animals carry informal symbolic associations in casual conversation).