🦈 is the animal and the compliment. Copy it here with its ocean combos.
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What the shark emoji means
🦈 (shark, Emoji 5.0) is the animal — Shark Week, beach warnings, aquarium trips — and the compliment: a “shark” is someone ruthlessly good at business, cards or sport. It also appears in the “baby shark” song jokes parents make, and in ocean combos with 🌊 🐬 🏄. No variants.
That they are aggressively good at something — sales, negotiation, a game.
When was the shark emoji added?
Emoji 5.0, in 2017.
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