U+1F420 "🐠" Tropical Fish Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🐠
U+1F420 "🐠" Tropical Fish is a pictographic representation of a small, brightly colored fish with detailed fins and a tail, commonly depicted in a side profile swimming to the left. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, standardized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, and is widely used in digital communication to symbolize tropical marine life, aquariums, the ocean, or a playful, exotic aesthetic. The character's design can vary slightly across different platforms and devices, but it consistently evokes a sense of underwater beauty and is often associated with themes of vacation, nature, or pets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F420 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Tropical Fish |
| 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 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F420 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc20 |