Tropical Fish is the aquarium-and-reef version of a fish emoji, reserved for color and pattern rather than the plainer 🐟 Fish, which leans food or zodiac. It's the one for snorkeling photos, tank updates, and any caption chasing "colorful" over the plainer idea of "edible."
What 🐠 means
A full-body profile of a fish with a pointy face, a bulbous body, sharp fins, and a tiny but sharp-edged caudal fin. Designed in shades of blue, green, and white, this character evokes a tropical feel.
The 🐠 Tropical Fish emoji refers to both freshwater and saltwater fish that are found in tropical environments. It signifies color, vibrance, marine life, swimming, beauty, and maybe even seafood.
How and when to use it
- While posting snorkeling pictures and/or videos either of your own or a repost, ensure to use 🐠 in the caption, because this emoji gives more virtual life to the experience than the 🐟 Fish emoji.
- If you're posting social media stories or posts/videos of your holiday at any tropical destination such as the Maldives, Bora Bora, and the Caribbean Islands, you can use 🐠 in such captions, both for pre-vacay and post-vacay posts/stories.
- Use 🐠 in the captions for any post that has a fish or many fish in it. Like, a picture from your art class, or a post from your animation class, etc.
- If you love tropical travel destinations and the entire exotic vibe, or if you just love tropical fish, you use 🐠 in your social media profile name.
- If you're posting the aquarium pictures you snapped with your kids on your social media handle, then too, you can use 🐠 in the caption along with other related emojis such as the 🐟 Fish emoji.
Other Names
- 🐠 Fish
- 🐠 Exotic Fish
- 🐠 Freshwater Fish
- 🐠 Saltwater Fish
- 🐠 Colourful Fish
The lowdown
- Category
- Animals & Nature › animal-marine
- Codepoints
U+1F420- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:tropical_fish:- Keywords
- animal, fish, fishes, tropical
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 — 🐠 Tropical Fish or 🛎️ Bellhop Bell?
Runs with a crowd
🐠 keeps company in summer emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.