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

&#xD83E;&#xDD91;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-marine

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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