shark

shark meaning

A shark, added in Emoji 9. 0. It represents the animal, the ocean and danger, and it carries the enormous cultural weight of Jaws — a film that did real damage to shark conservation. Sharks kill a handful of people a year; humans kill roughly a hundred million sharks.

Meaning

A shark, added in Emoji 9.0. It represents the animal, the ocean and danger, and it carries the enormous cultural weight of Jaws — a film that did real damage to shark conservation. Sharks kill a handful of people a year; humans kill roughly a hundred million sharks. In business, a shark is a ruthless operator. It is also, inescapably, Baby Shark.

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• Sharks kill five people a year. We kill a hundred million of them 🦈
• Loan sharks, the actual predators 🦈
• Do not start singing that song 🦈

How it looks

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Google Noto Color Emoji — SIL OFL 1.1 (font) / Apache 2.0 (code).

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Twemoji by Twitter/X contributors — CC-BY-4.0 (jdecked/twemoji).

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OpenMoji by the HfG Karlsruhe — CC-BY-SA-4.0.

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Blobmoji — Apache-2.0 (derivative of Noto).

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Technical details

Codepoints

U+1F988

Emoji version

3

Shortcodes

:shark:

Category

Animals & Nature

FAQ

What does the shark emoji (🦈) mean?

A shark, added in Emoji 9. 0. It represents the animal, the ocean and danger, and it carries the enormous cultural weight of Jaws — a film that did real damage to shark conservation. Sharks kill a handful of people a year; humans kill roughly a hundred million sharks.

How do you type the shark emoji?

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What category is the shark emoji in?

The shark emoji belongs to the Animals & Nature category.