🦭

Seal Emoji 🦭

Officially this is a seal, but Unicode never built a separate sea lion emoji, so the same design does double duty for both animals. Half its life in text is the pun, dropped after something that's earned a nod as a stand-in seal of approval.

What 🦭 means

This seal is shown full-body from a bent front view, fins tucked close to its body and its tail curved upward. The character's face has shiny black eyes, whiskers, and a buttony nose.

The adorable 🦭 Seal emoji signifies affection, warmth, friendliness, intellect, and an incredible ability to stay warm even in the coldest environments. Some platforms show the seal waving one of its fins while some showcase a side profile of the marine animal.

How and when to use it

If you want to seem cute in a textual conversation and put on some 'puppy eyes' for whatever reason, you can use 🦭.
Seals have been part of the circus entertainment for a while now, despite the absolute cruelty of this mode of leisure. However, if you feel like life is treating you like a circus animal that always expects you to put on a happy face, you can use 🦭 in such contexts. For instance, "I'm tired of doing this bullshit, man. I feel like a circus seal 🦭".
Given the fact that seals can be cuddly with their own kind, you can use 🦭 to indicate cuddles and physical affection with your kind via text. For example, "Aww. Don't be like that. I'm here for you, love 🦭" or "Tonight's gonna be 🦭 night", or "I'mma 🦭 you with my love" (seal puns, not so con-sealed)
Momma seals express loads of physical warmth and affectionate towards their cubs, so, 🦭 can be a sweet emoji to use either for yourself if you're a mom or to refer to your mum.
If you love seals and/or just find the emoji adorable, use 🦭 in your social media profile name. Do this if you closely work with these carnivorous cuties on a daily basis too.

Other Names

🦭 Bull (Male Seal)
🦭 Cub (Baby Seal)
🦭 Cow (Female Seal)
🦭 Pinniped
🦭 Marine Animal
🦭 Leopard Seal (Hunter from Madagascar)
🦭 Elephant Seal (Flynn from Ice Age)
🦭 Robby (Pingu's Buddy)

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-marine
Codepoints: U+1F9AD
Emoji version: Emoji 13.0
Shortcodes: :seal:
Keywords: animal, lion, ocean, sea, seal

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.