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๐Ÿ™ Emoji meaning

Intelligence, hugging, traveling, diving, multitasking.

๐Ÿ™ Meaning

The octopus has up to eight arms, including a favorite arm and is considered smart. Is also used in a kitschy way because of its cute appearance, e.g., โ€œI want to snuggle up to you.โ€œ In connection with traveling and diving or the ability to do many things at the same time.

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

Octopus
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Squid

Squid vs octopus; both tentacled sea creatures prepared as food in some cuisines.

Same Shape

Octopus
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Squid

Octopus vs squid; both tentacled sea animals, easily conflated in casual use.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji โ€œOctopusโ€ was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ animal + creature + ocean

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ octopus

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- octopus

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