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U+1F988 · SHARK

Shark

  • CodepointU+1F988
  • NameSHARK
  • Emoji nameshark
  • Decimal129416
  • BlockSupplemental Symbols and Pictographs (U+1F900–U+1F9FF)
  • Plane1 — Supplementary Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version9.0 (2016)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+1F988 (🦈) is SHARK, a symbol in the Supplemental 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 9.0 (2016).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “shark”, 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 A6 884 bytes
UTF-16D83E DD88surrogate pair
UTF-320001F9884 bytes
HTML decimal🦈
HTML hex🦈
CSS\1F988in content: "…"
JavaScript\u{1F988}ES2015+
JavaScript\uD83E\uDD88surrogate pair
JSON\uD83E\uDD88
Python\U0001F988
Python\N{SHARK}by name
Java / C#\uD83E\uDD88
C / C++\U0001F988universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1F988}
Go\U0001F988
Ruby\u{1F988}
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(129416)
URL-encoded%F0%9F%A6%88percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs

All in block →
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