One curling blue wave, crest breaking into whitecap, the shape lifted straight from classic Japanese wave art. Beach trips, surfing, and any ocean-adjacent post reach for it literally, and figuratively it stands for getting hit by a wave of something else entirely: emotion, nostalgia, a sudden rush of work, more than actual water most of the time.
What 🌊 means
Three layers of ascending waves in an ocean or sea, with a vast shade of deep blue at the bottom of the wave and a foamy white layer on the pinnacle of each of these waves.
The 🌊 Water Wave emoji represents growing and crashing waves. Apart from suggesting water activities that require riding the waves, this emoji can refer to hairstyles, human emotion, and some metaphors too.
How and when to use it
- A wave has the ability to carry things along and through its course and 🌊 can be used in similar contexts. For instance, "You carried me on your shoulders and saw the world through my eyes 🌊".
- Waves start small, but they can grow to a scary level. So, you too can use 🌊 while talking about someone or something that started small but is a mammoth now - "My phobia was nothing before, and now, its a frikkin mountainous wave of fear 🌊".
- Waves also represent constant movement, irrespective of rising or falling, and a sense of freedom as well. If you're talking about this kind of 'moving on' and freedom in any context, use 🌊. For example, "Let it all go, move on and embrace that freedom🌊".
- Waves are not all water, they can be hairstyles too. If you're posting or reposting anything related to waves, 🌊 is an exciting emoji to have in the caption!
Other Names
- 🌊 Wave
- 🌊 Waves
- 🌊 Ocean Wave
- 🌊 Sea Wave
- 🌊 Beach
- 🌊 Swelling Waters
- 🌊 Tide
- 🌊 Surge
- 🌊 Beachcomber
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › sky & weather
- Codepoints
U+1F30A- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:ocean::water_wave:Discord- Keywords
- nature, ocean, surf, surfer, surfing, water, wave
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 — 🌊 Water Wave or 🇩🇰 Flag: Denmark?
Runs with a crowd
🌊 keeps company in blue emojis and dragon boat festival emojis and holi emojis and songkran emojis and summer emojis and weather emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.