Water wave
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- Shortcode
:ocean:- Shortcode
:water_wave:- Unicode
U+1F30A- HTML
🌊- CSS
\1F30A- JavaScript
"\u{1F30A}"- URL
%F0%9F%8C%8A
What ๐ means
A curling ocean wave. It means the sea, surfing and beach life, and figuratively a surge: a wave of emotion, a trend, or momentum building.
Beach posts, surf trips and summer captions use it with ๐ or ๐. People also say "riding the ๐" for a lucky streak, or use it for feeling overwhelmed.
In US politics, a "blue wave" means a big win for Democrats, and some supporters add ๐ to their names and posts for that reason.
Facts
Water wave ๐ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under sky weather. 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 :ocean: or :water_wave:. People also look for it with words like โnatureโ, โoceanโ, โsurfโ, or โsurferโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.