🐙Octopus Emoji
Generally, the octopus emoji means “smart” or “clever. ” People use it when they’re impressed by someone’s thinking or ability to handle a complex situation.
The octopus emoji (🐙) represents the amazing animal itself.
- Unicode
- U+1F419
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :octopus:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐙 Octopus emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Octopus emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the octopus has been drawn in 4 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Octopus emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :octopus:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the octopus, code point U+1F419.
How to type the 🐙 Octopus emoji
No picker to hand? The octopus can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Octopus emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Octopus emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around octopus for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🐙, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🐙 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🐙 means in other countries
Mostly a literal sea-creature or a “too many hands” metaphor, with a narrower use as a wink toward tentacle-themed content in anime circles.
can be read as a nod to tentacle-themed adult content, a recognized genre in Japanese pop culture
literal reference to grilled or fresh octopus, a common dish
used as a metaphor for juggling many tasks at once, e.g. “I feel like an octopus today”
Before you send it: Fine for food or multitasking jokes; in anime fan spaces it can carry an unintended innuendo.
What 🐙 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F419, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🐙 Octopus emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F419 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🐙 existed there as
KDDI au E5C7, SoftBank E10A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Octopus was approved as U+1F419 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐙 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.