🦑 Squid

A squid, an octopus-like sea animal with ten arms. Generally depicted as a pinkish-orange giant squid, facing forward or angled to the left, with a slender, arrow-like body, small eyes, and two, long arms raised up at its sides. Platforms generally depict six arms.

Occasionally used to represent squid as a food item. Not to be confused with 🐙 Octopus, though their applications may overlap.

Microsoft, WhatsApp, and Twitter’s squids are facing forward. Samsung’s squid was previously gray.

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