U+1F991 "🦑" Squid Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦑
U+1F991 "🦑" Squid is an emoticon or pictogram depicting a stylized, cartoon-like squid, typically shown with a large head, ten tentacles, and two prominent eyes, often colored in shades of orange or pink. Introduced as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to the Emoji 3.0 standard, it is commonly used in digital communication to represent sea creatures, seafood, ocean themes, or even metaphorically for flexibility and intellectual prowess, due to the squid's association with intelligence and evasiveness in nature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F991 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Squid |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🦑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🦑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD91 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F991 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd91 |