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 Microsoft
Category Animals
Subcategory animal-marine
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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