Emoji dictionary
🦈 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
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.
the shark exhibit opens at the GA aquarium next weekend 🥺 I wanna go see the sharks 🦈
— morgan g (@Morgan_A_Gray) October 15, 2020
Shark Week has arrived!! 🦈
— Alex Mandel (@AlexMandel) July 23, 2017
The emoji is also used to refer to metaphorical sharks.
I see he markets as pretty stable actually, just a lot of companies needing, I see blood in the water. people with money acting like sharks. 🌊🦈
— KING ARTHUR (@AJoneeighty) June 23, 2020
Stay out that water if you ain’t ready to swim with the sharks 🦈
— og. (@illVinci_) July 18, 2019
The Shark emoji 🦈 sees frequent use for sports teams named after sharks, such as the NHL’s San Jose Sharks.
3 points, 3 goals scored, clean sheet, Top of the league … 🤷🏾♂️ lets go #SharkTeam 🦈
— Benjamin Mendy (@benmendy23) October 21, 2017
Due to a similar appearance, the Shark emoji 🦈 is easily confused for the Dolphin emoji 🐬.
Look 🦈 and 🐬 way too similar . Sharks are scary dolphins 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
— Gaaaaaael (@papamartminez) April 8, 2020
Note
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