🐡Blowfish Emoji
Generally, the 🐡 emoji just means “blowfish” – it’s referencing the fish itself. People use it to add a lighthearted touch to their messages.
The 🐡 emoji represents a blowfish, a type of pufferfish known for its ability to inflate itself with water when threatened.
- Unicode
- U+1F421
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :blowfish:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐡 Blowfish emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 2.
Blowfish emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F421 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your blowfish looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Blowfish 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 :blowfish:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F421.
How to type the 🐡 Blowfish emoji
No picker to hand? The blowfish can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Blowfish emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the blowfish as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Blowfish emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around blowfish 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🐡 means in other countries
Reads as a puffy, defensive creature broadly, with a specific culinary weight in Japan as fugu.
Fugu is a prized but potentially deadly delicacy, prepared only by licensed chefs.
Used for ‘puffing up’ jokes, like someone getting defensive or annoyed.
Before you send it: Safe for food talk or mood jokes; the fugu association adds flavor rather than risk.
What 🐡 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F421, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🐡 Blowfish 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+1F421 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
NTT DoCoMo E751, KDDI au E4D3.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Blowfish was approved as U+1F421 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.