Squid Emoji 🦑
Emoji Meaning
Squid is a marine animal that looks pretty much like an octopus, but with ten tentacles. It's generally depicted as an orange-pink sprout facing forward or left, with a slim body, tiny eyes, and two raised tentacles. This emoji has become specially popular in 2021 in relation due to the release and worldwide success of the Korean drama “Squid Game”.
The symbol “Squid” is included in the “Animal symbols” subblock of the “Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 9.0 in 2016. In 2016, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 3.0 and added to the “Sea Food” subcategory of the “Food & Drink” category.
| Unicode Name | Squid |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Subblock | Animal symbols |
| Unicode Version | 9.0 (2016) |
| Emoji Version | 3.0 (2016) |
| Emoji Category | Food & Drink |
| Emoji Subcategory | Sea Food |
| Emoji Name | Squid |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F991 |
| Simple case change | 1F991 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F A6 91 | 240 159 166 145 | 4036994705 | 11110000 10011111 10100110 10010001 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3E DD 91 | 216 62 221 145 | 3627998609 | 11011000 00111110 11011101 10010001 |
| UTF-16LE | 3E D8 91 DD | 62 216 145 221 | 1054380509 | 00111110 11011000 10010001 11011101 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F9 91 | 0 1 249 145 | 129425 | 00000000 00000001 11111001 10010001 |
| UTF-32LE | 91 F9 01 00 | 145 249 1 0 | 2449015040 | 10010001 11111001 00000001 00000000 |
