The dolphin emoji is your splashy shortcut for ocean joy, beach plans, and playful vibes—basically a tiny digital Flipper doing a victory lap. On Apple/iOS, it’s a smooth, left‑facing dolphin mid‑leap, blue‑gray on top with a clean white belly, a small dot eye, a gentle smile, a curved dorsal fin, and tail flukes—no water splash, just pure aerodynamic sass. That friendly grin makes it feel curious and smart, like it’s about to ping you with echolocation and good news. Visually it reads instantly: sleek snout, arched pose, and a wholesome “let’s go swim” energy.
People use it to signal beach days, aquarium trips, snorkeling plans, or a general “I need a vacation yesterday” mood. It can be flirty or wholesome depending on the context—drop a dolphin with wave emojis to slide into DMs like a splashy entrance, or pair it with seashells and palm trees for peak tropical aesthetic. In meme speak, it doubles as a wink for cleverness or teamwork (dolphins = brainy besties), and it can go sarcastic with a dramatic “so long and thanks for all the fish” send‑off. You’ll also see it cheerleading for ocean conservation posts, Miami Dolphins game chatter, or nostalgic throwbacks to Ecco the Dolphin and Saturday‑morning nature docs. When words fail, this fin-tastic friend basically squeaks, “vibes up, stress down.”
Definition
These animals are very smart. iEmoji old name: Flipper! Light Blue Dolphin.
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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)
244 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
:dolphin:
Keywords
Previous Names:
It's Flipper! Light Blue Dolphin
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
DOLPHIN
Symbol Information
U+1F42C proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-1C7
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[イルカ]
KDDI
#713 イルカ 「iruka」 U+EB1B SJIS-F3DC JIS-7A5E
Softbank
#129 #old455 イルカ 「iruka」 U+E520 SJIS-FBC0
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)
1f42c
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F42C
Decimal Code Point(s)
128044
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xAC
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 90 AC
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 220 254
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDC2C
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddc2c
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56364
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F42C
UTF-32 Hex
01F42C
UTF-32 Dec
128044
Python Src
u"\U0001F42C"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x90\xac"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDC2C"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
