Squid

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Shortcode
:squid:
Unicode
U+1F991
HTML
🦑
CSS
\1F991
JavaScript
"\u{1F991}"
URL
%F0%9F%A6%91

animalfoodmollusk

What 🦑 means

A squid with long tentacles. It covers calamari, ink and deep-sea creatures.

Seafood fans use it for fried calamari and sushi. Fans of the Korean drama Squid Game also use 🦑 for the show.

People often confuse 🦑 with 🐙. The squid is the long one with fins at the top.

Facts

Squid 🦑 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal marine. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :squid:. People also look for it with words like “animal”, “food”, or “mollusk”.

Timeline

  1. 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 3.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. squid, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. squid, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. squid, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

animals & nature · Emoji 3.0