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🐙 Octopus
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🐙 Emoji meaning
Intelligence, hugging, traveling, diving, multitasking.
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🐙 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., “I want to snuggle up to you.“ 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
Squid vs octopus; both tentacled sea creatures prepared as food in some cuisines.
Same Shape
Octopus vs squid; both tentacled sea animals, easily conflated in casual use.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Octopus” 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.
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+ animal + creature + ocean
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ octopus
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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- octopus
