Otter emoji 🦦
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F9A6
What 🦦 means
Otter 🦦 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, fishing, playful.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or fishing on your phone to find 🦦.
On the emoji keyboard, 🦦 sits with the mammals (66 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🦨 🦘 🦡 🐾.
Will 🦦 show on my friend's phone?
🦦 dates from Emoji 12.0 (2019). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🦦
To find 🦦 quickly, type otter into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type otter.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type otter in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type otter.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦦 as one code point, U+1F9A6: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9A6 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦦 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦦 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9A6"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9A6} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%A6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 A6 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🦦 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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What does the otter emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦦 "otter" and links it with animal, fishing, playful. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the otter emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
How do I type the otter emoji?
To find 🦦 quickly, type otter into the emoji search.