The black-and-white orca π« with its codepoint, its keyboard routes, the platforms that draw it so far, and the marine emoji people reached for before it existed. Tap the orca to copy it, or the whale and dolphin below to see exactly what it replaces.
π« ORCA (U+1FACD) arrived in Unicode 17.0 and reached most phones with iOS 26.4 in March 2026. Unicode files it under animal-marine, one shelf along from the dolphin rather than the whale, and that placement is taxonomically right: an orca is the largest of the dolphins, not a whale at all, despite "killer whale" being the name almost everyone types first. Until this codepoint existed, an orca had to be written as π or π¬, and neither is the animal. This page gives the glyph, the input routes, and the near neighbours it is still confused with.
The Unicode 17.0 codepoint itself, drawn black above and white below on every vendor so far.
Both of these were pressed into service for orcas for years, and both name a different animal.
Unicode's animal-marine subgroup, where the orca now sits.
A Discord nickname stops at 32 characters, an Instagram bio at 150, a TikTok bio at 80, and X weights some characters as two. The UltraTextGen counter reads all of them at once, and counts a multi-codepoint Unicode emoji the way each platform actually bills it.
Open the character counter βEvery animal emoji sorted by habitat, with the whole ocean-life shelf in one grid.
π«ͺ, the Unicode 17.0 release's most-used new emoji, and the orca's release-mate.
All eight Unicode 17.0 emoji and which platforms have drawn them so far.
The slide trombone πͺ with its codepoint, its input routes, the brass and woodwind it sits beside, and the one comic cue it gets typed forβ¦