🌊Water Wave Emoji
Generally, 🌊 means water or waves. People use it to talk about the ocean, beaches, or anything related to water.
The 🌊 emoji represents water, specifically waves.
- Unicode
- U+1F30A
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :ocean:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🌊 Water Wave emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as surfing emoji, ocean wave emoji, surf emoji.
Water Wave emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the water wave as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Water Wave emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :ocean:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F30A.
How to type the 🌊 Water Wave emoji
No picker to hand? The water wave can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Water Wave emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the water wave as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Water Wave emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around water wave for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🌊, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🌊 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🌊 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F30A, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Emojis similar to the Water Wave emoji
Same family (sky & weather) — often confused with water wave or used alongside it.
Collections 🌊 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
🌊 vs 🐃 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Water Wave
Code: U+1F30A · added 2010
Shortcode: :ocean:
Generally, 🌊 means water or waves.
Unicode name: Water Buffalo
Code: U+1F403 · added 2015
Shortcode: :water_buffalo:
Generally, the 🐃 emoji is used to show support or agreement with something tough or difficult.
Where the 🌊 Water Wave emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F30A never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🌊 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E73F, KDDI au EB7C, SoftBank E43E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Water Wave was approved as U+1F30A and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🌊 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.