This is Unicode's jellyfish, an animal that's been drifting through oceans for over 500 million years, older than dinosaurs and trees. A single bloom of them has shut down nuclear power plants by clogging the cooling intakes, so something this soft still throws its weight around. In text it's the pick for anything beautiful that stings.
What 🪼 means
A translucent jellyfish drifting with tentacles trailing. The 🪼 Jellyfish emoji (Emoji 15.0, September 2022) floats through ocean content, aquarium trips, and beach-warning season — and doubles as the internet's favorite symbol for going with the flow.
No brain, no heart, no worries: jellyfish energy is peak passive serenity, and people use it exactly that way.
How and when to use it
- Aquarium and ocean posts: "Could watch the 🪼 tank for hours. Screensaver of the sea."
- For drifting through life gracefully: "No plans this weekend. Just 🪼 vibes."
- And the practical one — beach sting warnings: "🪼 spotted at the cove, swim careful today."
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-marine
- Codepoints
U+1FABC- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.0
- Shortcodes
:jellyfish:- Keywords
- animal, aquarium, burn, invertebrate, jelly, jellyfish, life, marine, ocean, ouch, plankton, sea, sting, stinger, tentacles
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🪼 Jellyfish or 📘 Blue Book?
Runs with a crowd
🪼 keeps company in blue emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.