Used playfully or with a wink, a string of waves can say “everything’s a mess, but we’re cruising through it.” It does a PG flirt just fine—“let’s make a splash”—and it teams nicely with sun-soaked selfies, ocean-cleanup posts, and chill meditation mixes. It’s not as suggestive as the droplets emoji, but it absolutely nails big feelings, beach-core aesthetics, and that salty-breeze vibe.
Visually, think pocket ocean: one dramatic swell paused mid-crest. On Apple platforms it’s a sleek side-on curl, a deep cobalt melting into turquoise, dotted with bright white foam and spray. The shape forms a bold, almost crashing C, rendered with painterly polish—glassy highlights, razor-clean edges, and that unmistakable foamy lip that practically shouts surf’s up.
People drop it to announce beach getaways, surf sessions, or a laid-back “go with the flow” attitude. It’s also a go-to for exaggeration—a tsunami of emails, a wave of emotions, or a flood of group-chat pings. In U.S. political chatter it often stands in for the “Blue Wave,” and art lovers sometimes nod to Hokusai’s Great Wave, turning a tiny emoji into a pocket-sized culture flex.
Definition
A curling ocean wave of water. The Apple version looks a bit choppy and stormy. Only the most dedicated and thrill seeking surfers go out in waves like these.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
381 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:ocean:
Keywords
Ocean, Wave, Surf, Beach, Tide
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Weather, Landscape, and Sky Symbols
Editorial Comment
A large blue wave. Surf is up.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Nature
Unicode Subcategory
Weather and Landscape Symbols
Names & Annotations
WATER WAVE
Symbol Information
U+1F30A proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-038
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#Exp.52 'Wave' 波 U+E73F SJIS-F9E4 JIS-7B61
KDDI
#810 荒波 U+EB7C SJIS-F481 JIS-7B61
Softbank
#88 #old409 波 U+E43E SJIS-FB7E
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🌊
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🌊
Decimal HTML Entity
🌊
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🌊
Hex Code Point(s)
1f30a
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F30A
Decimal Code Point(s)
127754
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x8A
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8C 8A
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 214 212
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDF0A
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdf0a
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57098
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F30A
UTF-32 Hex
01F30A
UTF-32 Dec
127754
Python Src
u"\U0001F30A"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8c\x8a"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDF0A"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
