🦈 Shark

Emoji Meaning

A shark, a large, stealthy fish with many teeth. Generally depicted as a gray shark in full profile facing left, as a tiger, bull, or great white shark hunting in the water. Shown with a white underside and three gills, its pointed nose and teeth-lined mouth curving down to a sharp dorsal fin and long, pointed tail.

Not to be confused with 🐬 Dolphin.

Shark was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016.