Spouting whale

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Shortcode: :whale:
Shortcode: :spouting_whale:
Unicode: U+1F433
HTML: 🐳
CSS: \1F433
JavaScript: "\u{1F433}"
URL: %F0%9F%90%B3

What 🐳 means

A cheerful whale blowing water from its spout. It suggests joy, big friendly energy and the open ocean.

It decorates beach and ocean posts and whale-watching trips. Software developers use 🐳 for Docker, whose logo is a whale carrying shipping containers. In crypto and gaming chat, a 'whale' is someone with huge holdings or big spending, and 🐳 or 🐋 can tag one.

Facts

Spouting whale 🐳 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal marine. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :whale: or :spouting_whale:. People also look for it with words like “animal”, “beach”, “face”, or “ocean”.