U+1F30A "🌊" Water Wave Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

🌊

U+1F30A "🌊" Water Wave is a graphical symbol depicting a stylized, curling ocean wave, often shown in a deep blue hue with white crests, representing the sea, surfing, or powerful natural phenomena. It is widely used in digital communication to convey emotions such as calmness, adventure, or overwhelming feelings, as well as to literally reference water, beaches, tides, or weather events like tsunamis. Its design draws from classical Japanese woodblock prints, such as Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," giving it a fluid, dynamic appearance that resonates across cultures as a symbol of nature's beauty and force.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F30A
Version Added 6.0
Name Water Wave
Block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 🌊
HTML Hex Encoding 🌊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83C 0xDF0A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F30A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83c\udf0a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other
Emoji Yes
Emoji Presentation Yes
Extended Pictographic Yes