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🦈 Shark emoji

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What does 🦈 Shark emoji mean?

The Shark emoji 🦈 depicts a gray shark resembling a great white shark. It is commonly used to discuss actual sharks, especially during Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, and sports teams named after sharks.

The Shark emoji 🦈 is also used to refer to sharks in the sense of greedy, cheating people (e.g., loan shark), extremely talented individuals (pool shark), or aggressive, predatory people.

Where does 🦈 Shark emoji come from?

The Shark emoji 🦈 was approved under Unicode 9.0 in 2016. On all major platforms, the emoji resembles a gray shark facing left. Often, the shark has a pale underside, specifically evoking a great white shark.

The Shark emoji 🦈 was proposed alongside other animals such as the Bat 🦇 and Lizard 🦎emoji, among many others. The proposal noted the shark’s popularity as an animal, its use as a food item, its frequency in web searches, and its use in metaphors—including, the proposal wryly cited, in reference to lawyers.

Examples of 🦈 Shark emoji

I've got a cat circling me like a shark 🦈
@bensotophoto, May 20, 2017
There's only one week out of the whole year when I regret not having cable and that's shark week. I love sharks 🦈
@AnnaAndromalos7, July 19, 2017

Who uses 🦈 Shark emoji?

The Shark emoji 🦈 is used to discuss literal sharks and the popular Shark Week television program event on the Discovery Channel each year.

https://twitter.com/Morgan_A_Gray/status/1316578162067865601

The emoji is also used to refer to metaphorical sharks.

https://twitter.com/AJoneeighty/status/1275553681392295938

The Shark emoji 🦈 sees frequent use for sports teams named after sharks, such as the NHL’s San Jose Sharks.

Due to a similar appearance, the Shark emoji 🦈 is easily confused for the Dolphin emoji 🐬.

NOTE

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