🦈 Shark emoji

Copy the 🦈 Shark emoji (U+1F988), an Animals & Nature emoji from Emoji 3.0 (2016). HTML 🦈 and CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes.

CLDR name: shark
Code point: U+1F988
Type: Single code point
Group: Animals & Nature
Subgroup: Animal marine
Introduced: Emoji 3.0 (2016)
Keywords: animal, fish

About this emoji

🦈 Shark is an emoji in the Animals & Nature group, animal marine subgroup, first released in Emoji 3.0 (2016).

CLDR, the Unicode project that supplies emoji names in many languages, gives it the English keywords animal and fish; that is what emoji keyboards match when you search.

It is a single code point, U+1F988, named SHARK in the Unicode standard.

Codes to copy

HTML decimal	`🦈`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`🦈`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\1F988";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\uD83E\uDD88"`Also valid in JSON. Characters above U+FFFF are written as a surrogate pair.
JavaScript (ES6)	`"\u{1F988}"`Code point escape; not valid in JSON.
Python	`"\U0001f988"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{SHARK}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%F0%9F%A6%88`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A6 88`4 bytes.
UTF-16	`D83E DD88`2 code units, which is what JavaScript length counts.

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