Animals & Nature · Emoji 1.0
🐊Crocodile Emoji
Generally, the crocodile emoji means a warning or a playful suggestion of danger. People often use it to indicate something is risky or that they're feeling competitive.
The crocodile emoji (🐊) represents the reptile itself – a powerful, dangerous animal.
- Unicode
- U+1F40A
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :crocodile:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🐊 Crocodile emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
02 — Platforms
Crocodile emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the crocodile has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Crocodile emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :crocodile:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F40A.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🐊 Crocodile emoji
No picker to hand? The crocodile can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Crocodile emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Crocodile emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around crocodile for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🐊 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Around the world
What 🐊 means in other countries
Mostly a size or danger reference, but the English idiom about fake sadness gives it a pointed secondary meaning worth knowing.
“Crocodile tears” means fake sadness, so it can imply someone isn't being sincere.
A literal, everyday hazard reference near rivers and wetlands rather than a figure of speech.
Can nod to crocodile-leather goods or the Lacoste logo rather than the animal itself.
Before you send it: Skip it as a reaction to someone's sad news unless you mean to hint that they're faking it.
09 — Apps
What 🐊 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F40A, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — History
Where the 🐊 Crocodile emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the crocodile has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F40A 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.
Crocodile was approved as U+1F40A and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.
12 — FAQ