🐋Whale Emoji
Generally, the whale emoji just means whale. People use it to represent the animal itself, or to add a bit of fun and whimsy to a message.
The 🐋 emoji is a whale.
- Unicode
- U+1F40B
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :whale2:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐋 Whale emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Whale emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the whale 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.
Whale 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 :whale2:.
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+1F40B.
How to type the 🐋 Whale emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Whale emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the whale 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
Whale emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around whale 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
Who sent the whale and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🐋 means in other countries
The plainer, more literal whale glyph, used mostly for the actual animal rather than the “big spender” slang attached to the spouting version.
Used for real whale species, strandings, or ocean news rather than as a size joke.
Works as a generic “huge” or “that's massive” reaction, similar to the spouting whale.
Whaling remains a live topic there, so ocean posts with it can land more pointed than casual elsewhere.
Before you send it: Use it for genuine ocean or size references; it doesn't carry the “big spender” slang the spouting whale picked up.
What 🐋 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F40B, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🐋 vs 🐳 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Whale
Code: U+1F40B · added 2015
Shortcode: :whale2:
Generally, the whale emoji just means whale.
Unicode name: Spouting Whale
Code: U+1F433 · added 2010
Shortcode: :whale:
Generally, the whale emoji means "wow," “amazing,” or something really big and cool.
Where the 🐋 Whale emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the whale has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F40B 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.
Whale was approved as U+1F40B 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.