whale Emoji
๐ ยท U+1F40B ยท Emoji 1.0
What does the whale emoji mean?
Amazement and wonder are often conveyed by the whale emoji, which literally represents a large aquatic mammal, and is also used figuratively to express something or someone is enormous or overwhelming, with slang uses including being completely full after eating a large amount of food, as in having a whale of a time.
whale emoji examples
- just saw a whale at the beach ๐
- ate a whole pizza by myself no regrets ๐
How to copy the whale emoji
To use the whale emoji, tap the Copy button above, then paste it (long-press then Paste on mobile, or Ctrl+V / Cmd+V on desktop) anywhere you can type: messages, captions, usernames, bios and documents. It copies the real Unicode character (U+1F40B), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
Also known as
whale emoji on different platforms
How the whale emoji looks on your device and in the openly licensed sets that include it (Twitter / X (Twemoji), Google Noto Color Emoji, OpenMoji). See image credits.



whale Emoji Details
| Emoji | ๐ |
| Name | whale |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Codepoints | U+1F40B |
| Shortcode | :whale2: |
| Sources | Unicode emoji list ยท codepoints.net |
| Emoji version | 1.0 (2015) |
whale Emoji FAQ
It is U+1F40B, added in Emoji 1.0 (2015). On GitHub, Slack and Discord you can type it as :whale2:.
People also search for the whale emoji as animal, beach, ocean.