🦑Squid Emoji
Generally, the squid emoji just means a squid. People use it to represent the animal itself, or to add a slightly quirky vibe to their message.
The 🦑 emoji represents a squid.
- Unicode
- U+1F991
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :squid:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🦑 Squid emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Squid emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the squid as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Squid emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :squid:.
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+1F991.
How to type the 🦑 Squid emoji
No picker to hand? The squid can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Squid emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the squid 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
Squid emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around squid 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
Reads as food in most of the world, with a recent pop-culture spike thanks to the Korean show Squid Game.
Refers to calamari or squid dishes on a menu, standard culinary use.
Evokes the Netflix series Squid Game for a wider global audience.
Before you send it: Safe for food talk or show references; the surrounding words make clear which one you mean.
What 🦑 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F991, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🦑 Squid emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F991 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.
Squid was approved as U+1F991 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.