# 🌊 Water wave emoji

🌊 Water wave is an emoji in the sky and weather set of Travel & places. It was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010. Related words: nature, ocean, surf, surfer and surfing.

- Emoji: 🌊
- Unicode name: water wave
- Code points: U+1F30A
- Category: Travel & places, Sky and weather
- Added: Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- GitHub shortcode: :ocean:
- Keywords: nature, ocean, surf, surfer, surfing, water, wave
- Page: https://emojichart.com/water-wave-emoji

## What it means

A large ocean wave curls over, topped with white foam. You'll see it for the sea and the beach, surfing, big waves and floods, and figuratively for a surge or wave of something, such as a wave of change.

## How to type 🌊

- iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “water wave”.
- Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “water wave”.
- Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “water wave”.
- Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “water wave”.
- GitHub: Type :ocean: in an issue, pull request or comment.

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | ola de mar | mar, océano, ola, ola de mar |
| Français (fr) | vague | eau, Kanagawa, lame, large, marée, mer, nature, océan, remous, rouleau, surf, vague |
| Deutsch (de) | Welle | Meer, Welle |
| Italiano (it) | onda | acqua, la grande onda, mare, natura, oceano, onda, onda d’acqua, onda del mare, surf |
| Português (pt) | onda | água, mar, oceano, onda, praia, surfe, tsunami |
| Nederlands (nl) | golf | golf, golfsurfen, golven, Japan, Kanagawa, oceaan, surfen, water, weer, zee |
| Svenska (sv) | våg | havsvåg, våg |
| Polski (pl) | fala | fala, fale, hokusai, kanagawa, morze, obraz, ocean, tsunami, wielka fala |
| Türkçe (tr) | dalga | dalga, okyanus dalgası, sörf, su dalgası |
| Русский (ru) | волна | вода, волна, море, морская пена, океан, серфинг |
| Українська (uk) | хвиля | вода, океан, погода, хвиля |
| Ελληνικά (el) | θαλάσσιο κύμα | αφρός κυμάτων, θαλάσσιο κύμα, καιρός, κύμα, σερφ, σέρφερ, σέρφινγκ, φύση, ψηλό κύμα, ωκεανός |
| العربية (ar) | موجة | امواج, ركوب البحر, ركوب امواج, طبيعة, طقس, ماء, محيط, موجة, مياه |
| עברית (he) | גל | גל, ים, סערה |
| فارسی (fa) | موج آب | آب, اقیانوس, طبیعت, موج, موج سواری, موج‌سوار, موج‌سواری |
| हिन्दी (hi) | समुद्र की लहर | तरंग, पानी की लहर, महासागर, लहर, समुद्र की लहर |
| বাংলা (bn) | জল তরঙ্গ | আবহাওয়া, জল, জল তরঙ্গ, ঢেউ, পানি, মহাসাগর, সমুদ্রের ঢেউ, সার্ফার |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | ombak | air, alam, berselancar, gelombang, laut, ombak, peselancar, samudra, selancar |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | sóng nước | đại dương, nước, sóng |
| ไทย (th) | คลื่น | คลื่น, คลื่นทะเล |
| 日本語 (ja) | 波 | 天気, 波, 波浪, 海, 自然 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 파도 | 물결, 바다, 서퍼, 서핑, 서핑하는 사람, 자연, 파도, 풍랑 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 浪花 | 波浪, 浪, 浪花, 海洋 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 波浪 | 波浪, 海浪, 神奈川, 衝浪 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): brander
- Akan (ak): Ɛpo asorɔkye
- Albanian (sq): dallgë uji
- Amharic (am): የውሃ ሞገድ
- Anii (blo): bʊto kakʊma
- Armenian (hy): ջրի ալիք
- Assamese (as): জল তৰঙ্গ
- Azerbaijani (az): su dalğası
- Bashkir (ba): һыу тулҡыны
- Basque (eu): olatua
- Belarusian (be): хваля
- Bosnian (bs): val
- Breton (br): gwagenn
- Bulgarian (bg): вълна
- Burmese (my): ရေလှိုင်း
- Cantonese (yue): 海浪
- Catalan (ca): onada
- Cherokee (chr): ᎠᎹ ᎤᏔᎾ ᎠᏖᎸᏓ
- Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR China) (zh-Hant-HK): 海浪
- Chuvash (cv): шыв хумӗ
- Croatian (hr): vodeni val
- Czech (cs): vodní vlna
- Danish (da): bølge
- Estonian (et): veelaine
- Faroese (fo): alda
- Filipino (fil): alon
- Finnish (fi): aalto
- Galician (gl): onda
- Georgian (ka): წყლის ტალღა
- Gujarati (gu): પાણીની લહેર
- Hausa (ha): igiyar ruwa
- Hungarian (hu): vízhullám
- Icelandic (is): alda
- Igbo (ig): ìkùkù mmiri
- Irish (ga): tonn san uisce
- Javanese (jv): ombak banyu
- Kalaallisut (kl): bølge
- Kannada (kn): ನೀರಿನ ಅಲೆ
- Kazakh (kk): толқын
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): تولقىن
- Khmer (km): រលកទឹក
- Kinyarwanda (rw): umuvumba w’amazi
- Konkani (kok): उदकाचो तरंग
- Kyrgyz (ky): суу толкуну
- Kʼicheʼ (quc): Uyi’kopem ja’
- Lao (lo): ຄື້ນນໍ້າ
- Latin American Spanish (es-419): ola
- Latvian (lv): vilnis
- Lithuanian (lt): vandens banga
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): žwała
- Luxembourgish (lb): Waasserwell
- Macedonian (mk): бран
- Malay (ms): ombak laut
- Malayalam (ml): തിരമാല
- Maltese (mt): mewġa ilma
- Marathi (mr): पाण्याची लाट
- Mongolian (mn): усны давлагаа
- Māori (mi): ngaru wai
- Nepali (ne): पानीको छाल
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Wọtá Wev
- Northern Sotho (nso): lephoto la meetse
- Norwegian (no): bølge
- Norwegian Nynorsk (nn): bølgje
- Odia (or): ଜଳ ତରଙ୍ଗ
- Oromo (om): dambalii bishaanii
- Pashto (ps): د اوبو څپه
- Punjabi (pa): ਪਾਣੀ ਦੀ ਲਹਿਰ
- Punjabi (Arabic) (pa-Arab): پانی دی لہر
- Quechua (qu): yaku wallcha
- Romanian (ro): val
- Romansh (rm): unda
- Sardinian (sc): unda
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): stuagh
- Serbian (sr): талас
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): talas
- Shan (shn): ႁွၼ်ၼမ်ႉ
- Sindhi (sd): پاڻي جي لهر
- Sinhala (si): දිය රැල්ල
- Slovak (sk): morská vlna
- Slovenian (sl): vodni val
- Somali (so): hirka biyaha
- Swahili (sw): wimbi la maji
- Tajik (tg): мавҷи об
- Tamil (ta): கடலலை
- Telugu (te): సముద్రపు అల
- Tigrinya (ti): ማዕበል ማይ
- Tongan (to): peau
- Tswana (tn): lekhubu la metsi
- Turkmen (tk): suw tolkuny
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): žołma
- Urdu (ur): پانی کی لہر
- Uyghur (ug): سۇ دولقۇنى
- Uzbek (uz): suv to‘lqini
- Welsh (cy): ton ddŵr
- Wolof (wo): duusu ndox
- Xhosa (xh): iliza lamanzi
- Yoruba (yo): Iji Omi
- Zulu (zu): igagasi lamanzi

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F30A` |
| HTML | `🌊` |
| CSS | `\1F30A` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F30A}` |
| Python | `\U0001F30A` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F 8C 8A` |
| UTF-16 | `D83C DF0A` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%8C%8A` |

## Questions

### What does the 🌊 water wave emoji mean?

A large ocean wave curls over, topped with white foam. You'll see it for the sea and the beach, surfing, big waves and floods, and figuratively for a surge or wave of something, such as a wave of change.

### How do I type the 🌊 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “water wave”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :ocean:.

### When was the 🌊 emoji added?

🌊 was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010.

### What is the Unicode code point for 🌊?

U+1F30A. In HTML you can write 🌊, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F30A}.

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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/water-wave-emoji