U+1F40B "🐋" Whale Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🐋
U+1F40B "🐋" Whale is a pictographic representation of a whale, typically depicted as a large, blue or gray marine mammal with a streamlined body, a flat tail, and often a water spout on its head. It belongs to the "Animals & Nature" category within the Unicode standard and is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize whales, the ocean, marine conservation, or concepts like vastness, mystery, and preservation. The glyph's design can vary across different platforms and fonts, but it universally conveys the image of the largest animal on Earth, often associated with the deep sea and cultural references such as Moby Dick.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F40B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Whale |
| 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 0x90 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F40B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc0b |