Otter Emoji
What does the Otter emoji mean?
A playful otter lying on its back and looking straight ahead. Typically shown in a warm light-brown color, it clasps a small stone with its front paws. This image is sometimes used as a friendly or affectionate reference within the LGBTQ community.
Otters are playful, aquatic mammals from the weasel family. They're shown here in a light-brown hue, often pictured lying on their backs. With long tails and a love for floating belly-up, they make swimming look effortless and adorable.
In chats and messages, this animal usually stands for someone who loves spending time in the water. You can also use it to present yourself as a cute otter when asking for a favor — a playful, friendly way to make a request.
Apple Name
- 🦦 Otter
Unicode Name
- 🦦 Otter
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Otter emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🦦 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9A6
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%A6 |
| Punycode | xn--2t9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 A6 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDA6 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9a6 |
| CSS | \01F9A6 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9A6} |
| Perl | \x{1F9A6} |
| HTML hex | 🦦 |
| HTML dec | 🦦 |