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🌊 Water wave

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Category: Travel & Places
Subcategory: Sky & Weather
Shortcode
Unicode version: 6.0 (2010)
Emoji version: 0.6 (2010)
Status: fully-qualified

What the 🌊 emoji means

A curling blue wave, drawn after the Japanese woodblock print. The sea, and figuratively anything that arrives in force.

Holiday photos take the literal reading; news and analytics take the other one — a wave of orders, of layoffs, of applications.

Chat examples

Will your readers see 🌊

The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.

Apple always there
Google always there
Microsoft always there
Samsung always there

Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the 🌊 emoji is used

The 🌊 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how water wave is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

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🌊 Your deviceNative system font
Noto Color Emoji Apache License 2.0 💾 SVG
OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0 💾 SVG
Twemoji CC BY 4.0 💾 SVG

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English	water wave
Русский	волна
Deutsch	Welle
Español	ola de mar
Français	vague
Polski	fala
Dansk	bølge
Українська	хвиля
Português	onda

Unicode CLDR 48

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