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🦑 Squid

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🦑 Emoji meaning

Tentacles, sea creatures, color change, danger, delicacy.

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🦑 Meaning

Do not mess with me! Sea creature with tentacles. They hold their prey with the suckers. Squids change color depending on their mood (angry, excited, aggressive) and during the mating season. When in danger, they eject a cloud of ink. Popular delicacy.

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

Squid

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

Squid

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Squid vs shrimp; both small pink sea animals used generically for seafood.

Same Shape

Squid

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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 “Squid” was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 .

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ animal + mollusk

Keywords removed

- molusc

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ squid + molusc + food

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Comments

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Mark 7/21/2025
The octopus says “Hooray! He stretches his tentacles up into the air to celebrate.