Octopus Emoji

Animals

A cartoonish, purple octopus shown from above with large eyes and eight winding tentacles. It features a rounded head and a friendly, non-threatening appearance typical of modern digital icons.

Usage Context

Used to represent marine life, deep-sea exploration, or simply the ocean. It is frequently sent in conversations about seafood, sushi, or to denote someone who is 'multi-tasking' by juggling many things at once. It pairs well with other sea creatures like 🦑 or 🐟.

History

The octopus was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the massive effort to bring mobile emoji sets from Japanese carriers like SoftBank and NTT Docomo to the global stage. Its inclusion marked a push to expand the catalog of natural life, which was previously dominated by basic geometric shapes and weather icons.

Details

Glyph

🐙

Unicode

U+1F419

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f419:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC19;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-marine

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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