The squid emoji is your go-to cephalopod for ocean vibes, seafood cravings, and chaotic energy with extra tentacles. It pops up in tweets about sushi nights and calamari appetizers, in gaming chats (hello, Splatoon ink wars), and in posts riffing on Netflix’s Squid Game with a wink. People also drop it as a playful way to say “I’m slippery and hard to pin down,” or to signal a dramatic ink-cloud exit from a messy convo.
On Apple/iOS, this little creature is a bright, almost neon-pink squid shown at a slight three-quarter angle, glossy highlights on its teardrop mantle, tiny side fins, and big round eyes that make it look more curious than scary. Its arms curl downward with pale suction cups that read clearly even small, giving it that instant “cute but squishy” look. It’s basically a deep-sea plushie—recognizable the moment you spot the bubble eyes and pink tentacle fringe.
In texts, it can be flirty (“tentacle hug incoming”), sarcastic (“what a slippery situation”), or dramatic (“release the kraken… but make it adorable”). Meme-wise, it stands in for “ink it out” when you’re about to spill tea or vanish in a puff of sass. It’s also a multitasking mood—so many arms, so little time—perfect for those days you’re juggling everything like a caffeinated marine biologist.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 336 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 10 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🦑 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🦑 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🦑 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🦑 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f991 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F991 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129425 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0x91 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A6 91 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 246 221 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD91 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd91 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56721 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F991 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F991 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129425 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F991" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa6\x91" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD91" |
