U+1F9AD "🦭" Seal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦭
U+1F9AD "🦭" Seal is a pictographic representation of a pinniped, typically depicted with a streamlined body, whiskers, and flippers, often shown in a gray or brown tone. It was added to the Unicode Standard in 2019 as part of Emoji 12.0 under the "Animals & Nature" category, specifically within the "Animal Mammal" subgroup. This character is commonly used in digital communication to reference sea lions, seals, and walruses, or to convey concepts related to the ocean, marine life, cuteness, or playfulness, as seals are often associated with agility and curiosity in water.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9AD |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Seal |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xA6 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDAD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddad |