U+1F421 "🐡" Blowfish Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F421 "🐡" Blowfish is a pictographic representation of a spiky, round fish known for its ability to inflate into a spiny ball as a defense mechanism. This emoji is often used in digital communication to signify the animal itself, or metaphorically to represent concepts like defensiveness, caution, or resilience, due to the blowfish's distinctive behavior. It belongs to the Animals and Nature category within the Unicode standard, and its visual design typically features a yellow or orange body with exaggerated spikes and a small tail.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F421
Version Added 6.0
Name Blowfish
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 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDC21
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F421
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\udc21

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