Otter 🦦
History & usage: This emoji shows a friendly otter icon used to convey playfulness, curiosity, or affection in chats and social posts. People drop it in messages about cute moments, playful banter, or outdoor adventures, and it often appears in reactions, captions, and status updates to add a lighthearted vibe. In UI labels and menus, it can stand in for breezy onboarding tips about fun features, or represent a playful product tone without sounding formal. In notifications, it signals happy surprises or cozy, shareable moments when friends post new photos or stories. When pairing with text, it can soften a joke or show support for someone’s idea. Accessibility: provide descriptive alt text like 'otter emoji' for screen readers. This helps everyone enjoy the message.
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Technical details
- Codepoint:
U+1F9A6 - General Category:
So - Age:
12.0 - Bidi Class:
ON - Block:
Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs - Script:
Common - UTF-8:
F0 9F A6 A6 - UTF-16:
D83E DDA6 - UTF-32:
0001F9A6 - HTML dec:
🦦 - HTML hex:
🦦 - JS escape:
\u{1F9A6} - Python \N{}:
\N{OTTER} - Python \U:
\U0001F9A6 - URL-encoded:
%F0%9F%A6%A6 - CSS escape:
\1F9A6
How to type / insert
Fast copy: click the Copy button near the top of this page.
By codepoint: in many editors and IDEs, you can insert via the Unicode code U+1F9A6 or a built‑in character picker.
HTML: use the numeric entity 🦦 (hex) or 🦦 (decimal) when an HTML entity is needed.
Compatibility & troubleshooting
Font support: if the symbol does not render, the current font likely lacks this codepoint. Choose a font with broad Unicode coverage or allow a fallback font.
Web pages: ensure your CSS font stack includes a general fallback; avoid relying on images for common symbols to preserve accessibility and copyability.