An otter, the playful water mammal in the weasel family. Depicted as a light-brown otter on its back, with its forepaws held together and whiskered face to the left, generally with its long tail curled up.
Apple’s otter is in water, holding a stone, as is Microsoft’s.
Otter was approved as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019 and added to Emoji 12.0 in 2019.
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