Animals & Nature · Marine life
🐠 Tropical Fish
- Emoji
- 🐠
- Unicode
- U+1F420
- Shortcode
- :tropical_fish:
- HTML code
- 🐠
- Approved in
- Unicode 6.0 (2010)
- Category
- Animals & Nature
What does the 🐠 emoji mean?
The 🐠 emoji shows tropical fish and belongs to Animals & Nature (marine life). It appears in messages about animal, fish, fishes and tropical, nature posts, or as an affectionate nickname.
Keywords: animal, fish, fishes, tropical.
How 🐠 looks on each platform
Every company draws its own version of the same emoji.




Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp designs are copyrighted by each company, so we don't publish them as images. Open this page on an iPhone and the “Your device” box shows Apple's version; on a Samsung Galaxy, Samsung's.
How to type 🐠 on your keyboard
| iPhone | Open the keyboard, tap the emoji button 😀 and type “tropical fish” in “Search Emoji”. |
|---|---|
| Android | On Gboard or the Samsung keyboard, tap the emoji icon and search “tropical fish”. |
| Windows | Press Windows + . (period) and type “tropical fish”. |
| Mac | Press Control + Command + Space and search “tropical fish”. |
| Discord, Slack, GitHub | Type :tropical_fish: |
🐠 emoji codes
| Official Unicode name | tropical fish |
|---|---|
| Code points | U+1F420 |
| HTML decimal | 🐠 |
| HTML hex | 🐠 |
| CSS | \1F420 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F420} |
| Shortcode | :tropical_fish: |
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See Animals & NatureFrequently asked questions
What does the 🐠 emoji mean?
The 🐠 emoji shows tropical fish and belongs to Animals & Nature (marine life). It appears in messages about animal, fish, fishes and tropical, nature posts, or as an affectionate nickname.
How do I copy and paste the tropical fish emoji?
Tap Copy emoji on this page and paste it anywhere: WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, an email or a document. You can also find it on your phone's emoji keyboard by searching “tropical fish”.
When was the 🐠 emoji released?
It was approved in Unicode 6.0, in 2010. Today it works on practically every phone and computer.