🐬 Dolphin

Emoji Meaning

A dolphin, a sleek marine mammal known to be social and intelligent. Generally depicted as a light-blue dolphin with a white belly in full profile facing left, its short snout curving down to a prominent dorsal fin and tail, as a bottlenose dolphin leaping in the air.

May be used for various content concerning swimming, oceans, beaches, and summer fun. Not be confused with 🦈 Shark.

WhatsApp and Facebook’s dolphins are gray, as Microsoft and Samsung’s previously were.

Dolphin was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.