Try Dolphin emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Dolphin emoji mean?
A leaping dolphin, for the sea, holidays and cheerful company.
Bright and holiday-shaped. It brings a sunny tone to a caption without any words doing the work.
How to use 🐬 naturally
Beach photos, aquarium visits and captions about someone endlessly upbeat.
Animal emoji can be literal, affectionate or symbolic. People often use them for pets and wildlife, but also for personality traits, visual themes and private nicknames.
From standard to slang
The history of 🐬
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Dolphin was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A blue dolphin mid-leap with its body curved, from the carrier set. The arc is fixed into the character, so the animal is always drawn in motion.
- Today
How its use evolved
Beach photos, aquarium visits and captions about someone endlessly upbeat.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🐬 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Saw a pod from the boat this morning 🐬
Two weeks until the sea 🐬
She is the happiest person I know 🐬
When to use it
Using 🐬 clearly
Beach photos, aquarium visits and captions about someone endlessly upbeat. It lands as dolphin emoji or sea animal emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the dolphin emoji
What does 🐬 mean in a text message?
A leaping dolphin, for the sea, holidays and cheerful company. Bright and holiday-shaped. It brings a sunny tone to a caption without any words doing the work.
Is 🐬 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are dolphin emoji, sea animal emoji, 🐬 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🐬 look different on another device?
U+1F42C identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the dolphin emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🐬 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the dolphin emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🐬 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🐬 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F42C | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🐬 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐬 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F42C | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F42C} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%90%AC | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F42C
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- dolphin emojisea animal emoji🐬 meaning
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