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U+1F40B · WHALE

Whale

  • CodepointU+1F40B
  • NameWHALE
  • Emoji namewhale
  • Decimal128011
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (U+1F300–U+1F5FF)
  • Plane1 — Supplementary Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version6.0 (2010)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+1F40B (🐋) is WHALE, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 6.0 (2010).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “whale”, in the Animals & Nature group, subgroup animal-marine. It displays as a colour emoji by default.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type 🐋

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8F0 9F 90 8B4 bytes
UTF-16D83D DC0Bsurrogate pair
UTF-320001F40B4 bytes
HTML decimal🐋
HTML hex🐋
CSS\1F40Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u{1F40B}ES2015+
JavaScript\uD83D\uDC0Bsurrogate pair
JSON\uD83D\uDC0B
Python\U0001F40B
Python\N{WHALE}by name
Java / C#\uD83D\uDC0B
C / C++\U0001F40Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1F40B}
Go\U0001F40B
Ruby\u{1F40B}
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(128011)
URL-encoded%F0%9F%90%8Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs

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