🦈
🦈 Shark
Also known as: Great White Shark
Unicode: U+1F988
Description
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.
Image Variants
3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:3.0
Unicode Version:9.0
Keywords
fishshark
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :shark: | |
| GitHub | :shark: | |
| Slack | :shark: | |
| Discord | :shark: |
Additional Information
Category:Supplemental Symbols And Pictographs -> Animal symbols
Definition:
A shark swimming in the ocean, often displayed with a blue or gray tone. Shark was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoj http://emojipedia.org/shark/
Verbs:
- Play the shark; act with trickery
- To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
- Intransitive: to try to catch fish.
- To catch or try to catch fish.
- Catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
- To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.
Nouns:
- Superorder of fish
- A scaleless fish with a cartilaginous skeleton that has 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
- Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- Sharks are a group of fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.
- Scaleless cartilaginous fish.
- A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.