Seahorse Emoji Copy and Paste

No seahorse emoji exists, so press Copy for the wave and horse, or tap any of 47 labelled stand-ins.

Seahorse Emoji Copy and Paste

🌊🐴Sea horse, the long wayU+1F30A U+1F434Ready to copy

47 stand-ins. Tap one to copy it.

Closest you can paste 7

Neighbours on the reef 8

Horses and legends 4

Single characters 8

One-line text seahorses and fish 6

Seahorse in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Greek 4

Seahorse combos 10

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How it works

There is no seahorse emoji. Unicode's list, version 18.0, has 18 marine animals, Spouting whale to Oyster, and no seahorse. Seahorse emoji copy and paste here means stand-ins: a wave and a horse face first, then 46 more.

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What to paste instead

The closest single emoji is Tropical fish, because a seahorse is a bony fish. The closest outline is the black chess knight, a horse's head and neck by Wikipedia. Search reads Unicode names and CLDR search words, so poseidon finds Trident emblem.

Which stand-ins arrive intact

Ten of the 18 single emoji carry Emoji 0.6, the oldest label in Unicode's list. Coral, 14.0, and Jellyfish, 15.0, are the newest and the likeliest to land as empty boxes on an older phone. Five of the six text drawings are plain ASCII, both seahorses included, while the four hieroglyphs need a font that has them.

Tips
  • The chess knights and 桷馬 are ordinary text, not emoji: try them where a field strips emoji out.
  • The Text style switch acts on one tile, Fish, the only emoji here with a text form.
  • Roll call copies six reef emoji at once. For a shoal of one fish, the emoji repeater goes to 10,000.

Questions and answers

Is there a seahorse emoji?

No. Unicode's emoji names never mention a seahorse, and CLDR files nothing under the word. The nearest is a horse face beside a fish: Wikipedia gives the hippocampus of Greek myth the upper body of a horse and the lower body of a fish.

Did a seahorse emoji ever exist, or get removed?

Not in Unicode. Its stability policy says an encoded character is never removed, and no version has had a seahorse. Wikipedia's false memory article lists the emoji among memories many people share, and its Emoji article records one in a 1988 Japanese word processor manual.

What is a seahorse called in other languages?

Chinese and Japanese write 桷馬, sea plus horse (hǎimǎ in Mandarin, umiuma or kaiba in Japanese), and Korean ν•΄λ§ˆ comes from the same characters. Japanese tatsu no otoshigo begins with the word for dragon. Hippocampus is Ancient Greek: hΓ­ppos, horse, and kΓ‘mpos, sea monster.

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All 47 stand-ins

Closest you can paste 7

  • Blowfish U+1F421. CLDR gives it three search words: animal, blowfish and fish. Emoji 0.6.
  • Fish U+1F41F. The plain fish. The only emoji on this page with a text form, so the Text style switch changes this one and nothing else. Emoji 0.6.
  • Horse face U+1F434. The horse half. By Wikipedia a seahorse's head and neck are what bring the horse to mind. Emoji 0.6.
  • Sea horse, the long way Water wave, then horse face. Unicode has no seahorse emoji, so this spells one: sea, then horse. Chinese, Japanese and Korean write the animal the same way, sea plus horse.
  • Shrimp U+1F990. Not a fish, and no relation. CLDR files it under shellfish and small, and small is the part it shares: Wikipedia calls seahorses small marine fish. Emoji 3.0.
  • Tropical fish U+1F420. A seahorse is a bony fish, so this is the nearest relative on offer. CLDR files it under fish and tropical. Emoji 0.6.
  • Water wave U+1F30A. The sea half. Unicode files it under sky and weather; CLDR files it under ocean. Emoji 0.6.
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Neighbours on the reef 8

  • Coral U+1FAB8. Something to hold on to. CLDR files it under reef, and also under climate and change. One of the newer ones, so an older phone may show an empty box. Emoji 14.0.
  • Crab U+1F980. CLDR files it under Cancer and zodiac, and never under sea or ocean. Emoji 1.0.
  • Dolphin U+1F42C. Filed under ocean, beach and flipper. Emoji 0.6.
  • Jellyfish U+1FABC. The newest emoji on this page. CLDR gives it 15 search words, aquarium and ouch among them. Emoji 15.0.
  • Lobster U+1F99E. Filed under seafood, claws and bisque, which tells you where CLDR thinks it is going. Emoji 11.0.
  • Octopus U+1F419. Filed under ocean and creature. Emoji 0.6.
  • Spiral shell U+1F41A. Filed under sea, beach and conch. Emoji 0.6.
  • Squid U+1F991. Filed under mollusk, and under food. Emoji 3.0.

Horses and legends 4

  • Dragon U+1F409. One Japanese name for the seahorse begins with the word for dragon: tatsu no otoshigo. Wiktionary puts it down to their resemblance to dragons. Emoji 1.0.
  • Horse U+1F40E. The whole horse, where Horse face is only the head. Emoji 0.6.
  • Trident emblem U+1F531. Filed by CLDR under poseidon and trident. For the mythological end of the page. Emoji 0.6.
  • Unicorn U+1F984. The horse that did get in without existing. CLDR gives it two search words: face and unicorn. Emoji 1.0.

Single characters 8

  • Chess knight, black U+265E Black chess knight. The nearest single character to the outline. By Wikipedia the knight is carved as a horse's head and neck, and a seahorse's head and neck bring a horse to mind.
  • Chess knight, white U+2658 White chess knight. The same piece in outline. Plain text, so it takes the colour of the words around it.
  • Hieroglyph fish U+1319C Egyptian hieroglyph K002. Described by Unicode as a fish, with a species: Labeobarbus bynni.
  • Hieroglyph horse U+130D7 Egyptian hieroglyph E006. Unicode describes it as a horse, about to rear, front legs nearly vertical. It shows as an empty box where no font has hieroglyphs.
  • Hieroglyph puffer fish U+131A1 Egyptian hieroglyph K007. Described by Unicode as a fahaka puffer fish. A blowfish, several writing systems earlier.
  • Hieroglyph ripple of water U+13216 Egyptian hieroglyph N035. Described by Unicode as a ripple of water. A wave, in one zigzag.
  • Horse, in one Han character U+99AC CJK unified ideograph-99AC. Unihan defines it as horse. Mandarin mǎ, Japanese uma. The second half of the word for seahorse.
  • Sea, in one Han character U+6D77 CJK unified ideograph-6D77. Unihan defines it as sea, ocean. Mandarin hǎi, Japanese umi. The first half of the word for seahorse.

One-line text seahorses and fish 6

  • <>< The same fish, heading left
  • ><(((*> Longer fish with scales, plain ASCII
  • ><> Fish in three keystrokes, plain ASCII
  • >Β°)))彑 Fish with a brush-stroke tail
  • @}}}o= Seahorse on its side, our own attempt: curled tail, armour, snout
  • =o{{{@ The same seahorse, facing left

Seahorse in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Greek 4

  • αΌ±Ο€Ο€ΟŒΞΊΞ±ΞΌΟ€ΞΏΟ‚ Seahorse in Ancient Greek (hippΓ³kampos): horse plus sea monster
  • γ‚Ώγƒ„γƒŽγ‚ͺγƒˆγ‚·γ‚΄ Seahorse in Japanese (tatsu no otoshigo). The name begins with the word for dragon
  • 桷馬 Seahorse in Chinese and Japanese: sea plus horse (hǎimǎ, umiuma or kaiba)
  • ν•΄λ§ˆ Seahorse in Korean, from the same sea and horse

Seahorse combos 10

  • β™žπŸŒŠ Knight at sea: the chess knight and a wave
  • Carrying the eggs Horse face, then water wave, then egg. The male does it. Wikipedia: up to 1,500 eggs, carried for 9 to 45 days.
  • Dragon of the sea Water wave, then dragon. After the Japanese name tatsu no otoshigo, which starts with the word for dragon.
  • Hippocampus Horse face, then fish. The mythological one. Wikipedia has it with the upper body of a horse and the lower body of a fish, which is this, read left to right.
  • Holding on to the reef Coral, then horse face, then water wave. A seahorse has a prehensile tail, and Wikipedia says it swims extremely poorly. Hence the grip.
  • Roll call Tropical fish, then blowfish, then shrimp, then octopus, then jellyfish, then coral. Everyone is here. One absence noted.
  • Side by side Water wave, then horse face 2 times, then water wave. Courting seahorses swim side by side holding tails, according to Wikipedia.
  • Slowest fish in the sea Water wave, then horse face, then snail. By Wikipedia no fish moves slower than the dwarf seahorse: about 5 feet an hour.
  • Tide pool Crab, then spiral shell, then shrimp. The rest of the beach.
  • Wearing the coronet Crown, then horse face, then water wave. The crown-like spine on a seahorse's head is called a coronet.

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. There is no seahorse emoji: no name in emoji-test.txt, version 18.0, whose labels run from Emoji 0.6 to Emoji 18.0, mentions one, no search word or name in either CLDR English annotation file does, and no character name in UnicodeData.txt does. The marine animals subgroup of emoji-test.txt has 18 entries, from spouting whale to oyster. The 18 single emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, 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, in sentence case. The 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, main branch). The text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. That an encoded character is never removed is from the Unicode Character Encoding Stability Policies (https://www.unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html). That many people remember a seahorse emoji is from Wikipedia's article False memory, which lists it among its examples (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory), and its article Emoji, which records a seahorse in a 1988 word processor manual and dates Unicode's first emoji set to October 2010 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji). What a seahorse is (a bony fish of the genus Hippocampus whose head and neck bring a horse to mind, a prehensile tail, a coronet, a male brood pouch taking up to 1,500 eggs for 9 to 45 days, a poor swimmer, the dwarf seahorse the slowest-moving fish at about 5 feet an hour, courting pairs holding tails) and the Greek spelling of hippΓ³kampos are from Wikipedia's article Seahorse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seahorse); the mythological hippocampus is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus_(mythology); that a chess knight is a piece carved as a horse's head and neck is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_(chess). The Chinese, Japanese and Korean words are from Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%B5%B7%E9%A6%AC, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%ED%95%B4%EB%A7%88, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%AB%9C%E3%81%AE%E8%90%BD%E3%81%A8%E3%81%97%E5%AD%90), with the two Han characters checked against the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The four hieroglyph descriptions are the kEH_Desc values of Unikemet.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unikemet.txt). Four of the text fish are recorded in Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons). The two text seahorses are this site's own drawings, and the 10 combos and their names are our own. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are ours. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, and the Han definitions are Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in our own words and credited in the source line.