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Dolphin

  • sea creature
  • dolphin
U+1F42C

The dolphin emoji, officially named “dolphin”, is listed under Animals & Nature in the EmojiAll dictionary. In everyday chat it usually comes up in messages about sea creature and dolphin. The positivity score for this emoji is 73 out of 100, inside the Positive range.

Copied as text rather than as an image, Dolphin keeps its exact code point through any emoji copy and paste round trip.

1. Dolphin emoji attributes

Symbol
🐬
Name
Dolphin
English name
dolphin
Unicode code point
U+1F42C
HTML entity
🐬
Decimal
🐬
Keywords
sea creature, dolphin
Download image
Size
Background
512 × 512 PNG · transparent background

2. Dolphin emoji meaning

In the emoji library, the dolphin emoji is often used to refer to sea creatures, or to express coolness and freedom. It is a common sea creature, so there is almost no barrier to understanding it in travel check-ins, educational content and casual chat. What it expresses is solid and needs no annotation at all.

In everyday chat, the dolphin (🐬) usually appears alongside words about sea creature and dolphin. A few words of text make the intent clearer than the symbol on its own.

3. Dolphin emoji sentiment

Positive
73 / 100

Scored 73 out of 100, this emoji sits in the Positive range. People use it to show that something went well.

A higher score means a more positive feeling; scores near 50 are neutral.

4. Dolphin emoji examples

  • 1The zoo trip was worth it 🐬
  • 2Storm coming this evening 🐬
  • 3The garden is finally blooming 🐬

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