🐬Dolphin Emoji
Generally, the dolphin emoji means someone finds something or someone cute, playful, or intelligent. It’s often just a way to show you’re having a good time.
The dolphin emoji (🐬) represents the marine mammal itself.
- Unicode
- U+1F42C
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :dolphin:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐬 Dolphin emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
Dolphin emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the dolphin has been drawn in 4 ways.
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.
Dolphin 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 :dolphin:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the dolphin, code point U+1F42C.
How to type the 🐬 Dolphin emoji
No picker to hand? The dolphin can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Dolphin emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the dolphin 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
Dolphin emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around dolphin 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 in other countries
A warm, friendly symbol of intelligence and playfulness with essentially no negative reading anywhere.
Signals fun, smarts, or a beach vibe, always a positive association.
Refers to the Miami Dolphins NFL team specifically in American sports talk.
Before you send it: Use it freely for compliments about someone being clever or fun; nothing to watch for.
What 🐬 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F42C, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🐬 Dolphin 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+1F42C 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
KDDI au EB1B, SoftBank E520.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Dolphin was approved as U+1F42C 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.