🐟Fish Emoji
Generally, the fish emoji just means "fish. " It’s often used to represent the actual animal or things associated with it, like seafood or aquatic environments.
The fish emoji (🐟) represents a fish, obviously!
- Unicode
- U+1F41F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :fish:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐟 Fish emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as pisces emoji.
Fish emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F41F — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your fish looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Fish 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 :fish:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F41F.
How to type the 🐟 Fish emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Fish emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the fish 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
Fish emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around fish 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 fish and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🐟 means in other countries
Mostly a plain food or nature reference, though ballroom and drag slang uses ‘fish’ for passing femininity.
Refers to seafood, aquariums, or ‘fish out of water’ discomfort.
‘Fish’ describes a trans woman who reads as convincingly feminine — praise to some, offensive to others.
Before you send it: Safe for food or idiom use; skip the ballroom-slang meaning unless you know the community well.
What 🐟 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🐟 vs 🐠 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Fish
Code: U+1F41F · added 2010
Shortcode: :fish:
Generally, the fish emoji just means "fish.
Unicode name: Tropical Fish
Code: U+1F420 · added 2010
Shortcode: :tropical_fish:
Generally, the 🐠 emoji just means “fish.
Where the 🐟 Fish 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+1F41F 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 E751, KDDI au E49A, SoftBank E019.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Fish was approved as U+1F41F 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.