U+1F433 "🐳" Spouting Whale Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🐳
U+1F433 "🐳" Spouting Whale is a pictographic representation of a whale surfacing to breathe, depicted with a distinctive spray of water rising from its blowhole. This character falls under the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is part of a broader set of animal and nature-related emojis. It is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize the ocean, marine life, scale, and sometimes metaphors for massive size or emotional depth, often conveying a sense of wonder or playfulness. The spouting water element distinguishes it from other whale emojis, emphasizing the active, lively moment of the whale breaching the water’s surface.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F433 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Spouting 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 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC33 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F433 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc33 |