Octopus
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- Shortcode
:octopus:- Unicode
U+1F419- HTML
🐙- CSS
\1F419- JavaScript
"\u{1F419}"- URL
%F0%9F%90%99
What ๐ means
Multitasking, cleverness, and grabbing many things at once. The octopus has eight curling arms and a famously sharp mind.
Busy people send it to say they need eight arms to finish everything. It also covers seafood, aquarium visits, and the fact that octopuses are very intelligent animals.
Squid is ๐ฆ. People mix the two up, but ๐ is rounder with no fins.
Facts
Octopus ๐ is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal marine. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :octopus:. People also look for it with words like โanimalโ, โcreatureโ, or โoceanโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.