Squid Emoji
Animals
A reddish-pink squid featuring a large mantle, two long tentacles, and several smaller arms. It is depicted in a naturalistic style with visible eyes and a streamlined body meant for rapid movement through deep water.
Usage Context
Used to discuss marine biology, seafood dishes, or to represent the animal itself. It frequently appears alongside 🐙 when people talk about ocean life, calamari, or even pop-culture references to tentacled monsters in films and gaming.
History
The squid was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0. Its inclusion followed a broader push to diversify the animal kingdom represented in digital communication, moving beyond common farm animals to include more complex creatures found in the world's oceans.
Details
Glyph
🦑
Unicode
U+1F991
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f991:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Animals
Subcategory animal-marine
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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