On Apple/iOS, this fish shows up as a bright yellow stunner with electric-blue vertical stripes, glossy gradients, and an alert round eye, rendered in a crisp left-facing side profile. Its angular fins flare like a tiny flag, and the little mouth points ahead as if it’s about to say “blub.” The saturated palette screams coral-reef postcard, which is why it pairs so well with shell, wave, and palm tree emojis in captions. People drop it flirtatiously (“you look fintastic”), use it ironically with “just keep swimming” memes, or flash it as a cheeky nod to catfishing drama. It works as a stand-in for general sea life, ocean conservation talk, reef-tank hobby chatter, or to broadcast tropical vibes without typing a word.
It also swims into chats when you’re serving beach-vacation energy, reef daydreams, or full-on aquarium-core aesthetics. Think snorkel pics, scuba brags, and “out of office, under the sea” captions. Online, it pulls double duty as a playful “something’s fishy” jab or a way to call out a suspicious plot twist in the group chat. Expect it in Pisces-season posts, mermaid fantasies, and those thirsty vacation slideshows that practically smell like sunscreen.
Definition
An aquarium is where you might find one of these things or in a tropical climate.
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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)
326 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
:tropical_fish:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Green and Blue Tropical Fish
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Human/living Things
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Symbols
Names & Annotations
TROPICAL FISH
Symbol Information
U+1F420 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-1C9
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#Exp.70 'Fish' 魚 U+E751 SJIS-F9F6 JIS-7A60
KDDI
#715 熱帯魚 U+EB1D SJIS-F3DE JIS-7A60
Softbank
#131 #old457 熱帯魚 U+E522 SJIS-FBC2
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)
1f420
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F420
Decimal Code Point(s)
128032
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xA0
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 90 A0
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 220 240
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDC20
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddc20
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56352
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F420
UTF-32 Hex
01F420
UTF-32 Dec
128032
Python Src
u"\U0001F420"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x90\xa0"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDC20"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
