Walrus 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 walrus: 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 walrus. Seal is U+1F9AD, Emoji 13.0, in the subgroup animal-marine, with the search words animal, lion, ocean, sea and seal. CLDR files tusk under Mammoth alone, iceberg under Ice alone, arctic and polar under Polar bear alone, flipper under Dolphin alone, mustache and moustache under Disguised face alone, mollusk under Squid alone, shellfish under Shrimp alone, north under Up arrow alone and whiskers under the three bearded people; tusks, ivory, blubber, pinniped and clam lead to no emoji. Unihan 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip) defines 海 as sea, ocean; maritime and 象 as elephant; ivory; figure, image. That the walrus is a large pinniped of the Arctic Ocean and the subarctic seas around the North Pole, the one living species of its family and of the genus Odobenus, known by its tusks and whiskers, outgrown among pinnipeds only by the two elephant seals, that it spends much of its life on sea ice, prefers bivalve mollusks, clams most of all, eats some slow fish, finds prey with its whiskers, has an air sac under its throat that lets it float upright and sleep, and that Odobenus is from Greek for teeth and walk, after walruses seen pulling themselves from the water by their tusks, are from Wikipedia, Walrus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walrus, CC BY-SA 4.0). From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0): walrus (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/walrus) for the long tusks and four flippers and the Old Norse hrosshvalr and Old English horshwæl, horse-whale; valross for the gloss horse-whale; Walross for Wal and Ross, whale and horse; pinniped for the three kinds; tusk; walrus moustache; haul out; oyster; morse (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morse) for the obsolete English word and the French one; морж for the Russian word and its sense of a winter swimmer; 海象 for the Chinese word. Wikipedia’s List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) holds no walrus. The typed walruses, 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.