🦈 Meaning – Shark Emoji

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The image of a shark swimming in the ocean, often displayed with a blue or gray tone is the emoji symbol for a predator. Although it can be used to refer to the dangerous fish itself, it is more often associated to danger, peril or something deadly. Shark Emoji can mean “If he won’t pay his debt he’ll end up swimming with the sharks!” as in dying.

The Shark Emoji appeared in 2016, and also known as the Shark Symbol.

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Shark Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F988
Unicode name: Shark
Category: Animals & Nature / Marine Animals
Keywords: fish
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F988
Decimal HTML Entity: 🦈
Hex HTML Entity: 🦈
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83E 0xDD88
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark
Version: Unicode 9.0
Year: 2016 (see all emoji of 2016)

🌐 Shark Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	Hai	Haifisch
Français	requin	animal, poisson
Русский	акула	рыба
Español	tiburón	pez
Italiano	squalo	aggressività, animale, pesce
Português	tubarão	peixe
Polski	rekin	ryba

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How to type Shark Emoji

There are number of methods to type Shark Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 🦈 emoji

It's very easy to get Shark Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 🦈 meaning and look at 🦈 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

🦈 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.