🐳Spouting Whale Emoji
Generally, the whale emoji means "wow," “amazing,” or something really big and cool. People use it to show excitement or to react to something impressive.
The 🐳 emoji represents a whale, specifically one spouting water.
- Unicode
- U+1F433
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :whale:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐳 Spouting Whale 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 whale emoji.
Spouting Whale emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the spouting whale 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.
Spouting Whale emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :whale:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the spouting whale, code point U+1F433.
How to type the 🐳 Spouting Whale emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F433 when there is no key at all.
Spouting Whale emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the spouting 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
Spouting Whale emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around spouting 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🐳 means in other countries
Reads as a big, friendly sea creature almost everywhere; the real split is between marine-life use and internet slang for a huge spender.
A “whale” is someone who spends huge amounts of money, so it can mean “big spender” more than the animal.
Used literally for whales, whale watching, or environmental posts about the sea.
Common playful stand-in for “huge” or “massive,” as in “that pizza was a whale.”
Before you send it: Fine to send anywhere; just know that in gaming or crypto chats people may read it as “big spender” rather than the animal.
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: Spouting Whale
Code: U+1F433 · added 2010
Shortcode: :whale:
Generally, the whale emoji means "wow," “amazing,” or something really big and cool.
Unicode name: Whale
Code: U+1F40B · added 2015
Shortcode: :whale2:
Generally, the whale emoji just means whale.
Where the 🐳 Spouting Whale 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+1F433 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 E470, SoftBank E054.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Spouting Whale was approved as U+1F433 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.