🐊 Crocodile
🐊 Emoji meaning
Crocodile tears, tropics, reptile, strength, age, voracity, and hypocrisy.
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🐊 Meaning
Shedding big crocodile tears. With 230 million years of age, the saurian is the oldest animal group in the world. Crocodiles live in tropical regions in the water and on land. They are considered inactive and are strong hunters. Can refer to a country or region, e.g. Australia or Florida. Figuratively, the crocodile also stands for greed and hypocrisy.
Examples
- It looks majestic. 🐊
- Don't mess with me! 🐊
- Did you see the crocodile? 🐊
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Turtle vs crocodile; both green reptiles with shells/scales, silhouette alone can mislead users.
Same Shape
Crocodile vs turtle; long snout vs shell detail can be hard to see at emoji size.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Crocodile” was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords added
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
Keywords added
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
Keywords removed
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Jun The crocodile can also stand for a playboy.