Manta Ray Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-12 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode has no emoji named for a manta or a stingray: no emoji name, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds manta or stingray. The one emoji name with the word ray is X-ray (U+1FA7B); the other two characters named ray are a letter-like Arabic sign and a Canadian syllabic. CLDR files nothing under ray, and rays under Sun alone. Shark is U+1F988, Emoji 3.0, with the search words animal, fish and shark; Kite is U+1FA81, Emoji 12.0, with fly, kite and soar. CLDR files soar under Wing and Kite, plankton under Jellyfish alone, reef under Coral alone, snorkeling under Diving mask alone, scuba under Diving mask and Goggles, smart under Nerd face and Brain, and devil under three emoji (Smiling face with horns, Angry face with horns, Ogre); blanket, cloak, tail and filter lead to no emoji. Unihan 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip) defines 魟 as a ray, skate. The diamonds are U+25C7 White diamond and U+25C6 Black diamond; the wave is U+224B Triple tilde. That manta rays are large rays of the genus Mobula, once a genus of their own, with triangular side fins, horn-shaped head fins and mouths that face forward, that they live in warm temperate, subtropical and tropical waters, are filter feeders that eat zooplankton, breach as whales do for unknown reasons, visit cleaning stations on coral reefs, have the largest brain of all fish and evolved from bottom-dwelling stingrays, that manta is Portuguese and Spanish for a cloak or blanket and for a blanket-shaped trap used to catch rays, and that mantas are known as devilfish for their head fins are from Wikipedia, Manta ray (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manta_ray, CC BY-SA 4.0). That rays, like sharks, are cartilaginous fish with a skeleton of cartilage, flattened bodies and enlarged fins joined to the head is from Wikipedia, Batomorphi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batomorphi); the name flying rays is from Wikipedia, Mobula (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobula). From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0): manta ray (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manta_ray) for the wing-like fins, the tail, the two horn-like fins and the Spanish source said to mean broad and long like a quilt; mantarraya for manta and raya; devil ray; sea devil. Wikipedia’s List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) holds no manta and no stingray. The typed rays, the drawings, the caption lines and the combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the typed lines, the drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data and Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.