Try Jellyfish emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Jellyfish emoji mean?
A translucent jellyfish, for the sea, drifting and stings.
Calm with a warning underneath. Holiday posts use it for beauty and for the reason nobody went back in the water.
How to use 🪼 naturally
Beach warnings, aquarium photos and captions about floating through the week.
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 🪼
- 2022
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Jellyfish was first defined as emoji in Emoji 15.0, dated 2022. A modest release continuing the annual cadence.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2023 with a pale bell and trailing tentacles. The transparency is faked with light colour, since emoji fonts cannot render anything see-through.
- Today
How its use evolved
Beach warnings, aquarium photos and captions about floating through the week.
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.
Whole beach closed because of them 🪼
Aquarium tank you could watch for hours 🪼
Drifting through Monday 🪼
When to use it
Using 🪼 clearly
Beach warnings, aquarium photos and captions about floating through the week. It lands as jellyfish emoji or 🪼 meaning 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 jellyfish emoji
What does 🪼 mean in a text message?
A translucent jellyfish, for the sea, drifting and stings. Calm with a warning underneath. Holiday posts use it for beauty and for the reason nobody went back in the water.
Is 🪼 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are jellyfish emoji, 🪼 meaning, sea emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🪼 look different on another device?
U+1FABC 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 jellyfish 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 jellyfish emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🪼 as emoji in Emoji 15.0, dated 2022. 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+1FABC | 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 | \1FABC | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FABC} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AA%BC | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FABC
- Category
- Animals & Nature Life
- Also known as
- jellyfish emoji🪼 meaningsea emoji
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