🐙 Octopus
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Emoji Meaning
1
An octopus looking straight ahead. Generally depicted as pinkish in color but may vary depending on the platform. Used when talking about Cthulhu, the Lovecraftian fictional character.
2
An inhabitant of the sea with many limbs and lots of suckers. This is what an octopus looks like. In the emoji, it is displayed in a bright red tone with outstretched tentacles and a huge head. These creatures are known for their ability to secrete ink to hide from predators.
Shellfish is used in correspondence when talking about the depths of the sea and its inhabitants. In a figurative sense, an octopus can mean a person who is busy with work or performs many tasks at the same time.
Apple Name
- 🐙 Octopus
Unicode Name
- 🐙 Octopus
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🐙 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F419
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%90%99 |
| Punycode | xn--ho8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 90 99 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC19 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f419 |
| CSS | \01F419 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F419} |
| Perl | \x{1F419} |
| HTML hex | 🐙 |
| HTML dec | 🐙 |