U+1F30A Water Wave

U+1F30A was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block U+1F300 to U+1F5FF Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as tsunami and tidal wave.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F30A offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The CLDR project calls this character “water wave” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: nature, ocean, surf, surfer, surfing, water, wave.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🌊︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.