Squid emoji 🦑
Emoji 3.0 (2016) · U+1F991
What 🦑 means
Squid 🦑 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, food, mollusk.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or food on your phone to find 🦑.
On the emoji keyboard, 🦑 sits with the sea animals (18 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🦪 🐳 🐋 🐬.
Will 🦑 show on my friend's phone?
Added in Emoji 3.0 (2016), 🦑 is old enough that all current phones, computers and apps show it.
How to type 🦑
To find 🦑 quickly, type squid into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type squid.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type squid in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type squid.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦑 as one code point, U+1F991: 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+1F991 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦑 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦑 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F991"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F991} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%91 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 91 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🦑 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | squid |
| Português | lula |
| Español | calamar |
| Italiano | calamaro |
| Français | calamar |
| Deutsch | Tintenfisch |
| Türkçe | mürekkep balığı |
| Bahasa Indonesia | cumi-cumi |
| Polski | kałamarnica |
| Русский | кальмар |
| 日本語 | イカ |
| 한국어 | 오징어 |
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the squid emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦑 "squid" and links it with animal, food, mollusk. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sea animals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the squid emoji added?
In Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the squid emoji?
To find 🦑 quickly, type squid into the emoji search.