Octopus Emoji
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What does the Octopus emoji mean?
1
A front-facing octopus — usually shown in a pinkish hue, though the color may vary by platform. More often than not used to reference Cthulhu, the famous creature from H.P. Lovecraft’s stories.
2
A sea-dweller with many limbs and rows of suckers — that’s the octopus. As an emoji, it’s usually shown in a bright red hue with outstretched tentacles and a huge head. These clever creatures are famous for squirting ink to escape predators.
The octopus emoji often appears in messages about the ocean and its inhabitants. Figuratively, it can describe someone who is busy with work or handling many tasks at once.
Apple Name
- 🐙 Octopus
Unicode Name
- 🐙 Octopus
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Octopus emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🐙 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F419
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%90%99 |
| Punycode | xn--ho8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 90 99 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC19 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f419 |
| CSS | \01F419 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F419} |
| Perl | \x{1F419} |
| HTML hex | 🐙 |
| HTML dec | 🐙 |