Snail Emoji
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What does the Snail emoji mean?
1
A left-facing snail, typically shown in brown with a textured shell, often used playfully to describe someone who’s moving very slowly.
2
The snail's appearance varies across platforms: on some it looks realistic, on others it's stylized and irresistibly cute. A snail is a slow-moving mollusk that carries a spiral shell and has eye stalks resembling tentacles.
The snail is generally used as a positive symbol. It can mean rainy weather, stubbornness, the determination to overcome obstacles, even when things don't go well or progress is very slowly. It can describe people who are always late or simply slow.
Also Known As
- 🐌 Garden Snail
- 🐌 Slug
Apple Name
- 🐌 Snail
Unicode Name
- 🐌 Snail
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Snail emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🐌 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F40C
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%90%8C |
| Punycode | xn--3n8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 90 8C |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC0C |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f40c |
| CSS | \01F40C |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F40C} |
| Perl | \x{1F40C} |
| HTML hex | 🐌 |
| HTML dec | 🐌 |