The blowfish emoji is the internet’s round, spiky drama ball—perfect when you’re feeling stuffed after sushi, puffed with pride, or holding your breath through a plot twist. People drop it in texts as a visual “I’m bloated,” a playful “don’t burst my bubble,” or a roast about someone’s inflated ego. It also rides the meme wave thanks to the legendary pufferfish-eating-a-carrot clip—aka the squealy “oooOOO” energy you can practically hear when this shows up. Flirty twist: those pursed, kissy lips make it a surprisingly cute stand-in for a pout.
A blowfish (also called a puffer fish) is a fish that can puff up (expand) into a spikey ball when scared. The act of puffing up makes the fish bigger and less appealing to eat by possible predators. Blowfish are also known for being poisonous as they contain highly toxic tetrodotoxin. Despite this toxin, some daring people consider blowfish to be a delicacy and will eat the portions of the fish that contain less or no toxin. This emoji swims under the radar by appearing harmless, easygoing, and slow speed, but when threatened, can grow in size, accentuate its spikes and ultimately be extremely deadly. Homer Simpson once ate one of these.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 404 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture |  |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :blowfish: |
| Keywords | Blowfish, Pufferfish, Puffer, Ballonfish, Toadfish, Fugu Fish, Sushi |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Animal Symbols |
Careful, the traits of a puffer fish can be found in people too. Sometimes the quiet ones are most dangerous.
| Unicode Category | Human/living Things |
| Unicode Subcategory | Animal Symbols |
| Names & Annotations | BLOWFISH |
| Symbol Information | U+1F421 proposed |
| Proposal Identifier | e-1D9 |
| DoCoMo | #Exp.70 'Fish' 魚 U+E751 SJIS-F9F6 JIS-7A60 |
| KDDI | #242 ふぐ 「fugu」 U+E4D3 SJIS-F6AC JIS-762E |
| Softbank | #130 #old25 魚 U+E019 SJIS-F959 |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - 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) | 1f421 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F421 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128033 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xA1 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 90 A1 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 220 241 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC21 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc21 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56353 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F421 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F421 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128033 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F421" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x90\xa1" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC21" |
| Emoji Encoding | DoCoMo | KDDI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | | | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |||
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾇙 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾇙 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e751 | e4d3 | fe1d9 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E751 | U+E4D3 | U+FE1D9 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 59217 | 58579 | 1040857 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x9D 0x91 | 0xEE 0x93 0x93 | 0xF3 0xBE 0x87 0x99 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 9D 91 | EE 93 93 | F3 BE 87 99 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 235 221 | 356 223 223 | 363 276 207 231 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE751 | 0xE4D3 | 0xDBB8 0xDDD9 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e751 | e4d3 | dbb8ddd9 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 59217 | 58579 | 56248 56793 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E751 | 0x0000E4D3 | 0x000FE1D9 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E751 | E4D3 | 0FE1D9 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 59217 | 58579 | 1040857 |
| Python Src | u"\uE751" | u"\uE4D3" | u"\U000FE1D9" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x9d\x91" | "\xee\x93\x93" | "\xf3\xbe\x87\x99" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE751" | "\uE4D3" | "\uDBB8\uDDD9" |
