Snail emoji 🐌
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F40C
What 🐌 means
Snail 🐌 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, escargot, garden, nature, slug.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or escargot on your phone to find 🐌.
On the emoji keyboard, 🐌 sits with the bugs (17 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🦋 🐛 🐜 🐝.
Will 🐌 show on my friend's phone?
🐌 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 🐌
To find 🐌 quickly, type snail into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type snail.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type snail in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type snail.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🐌 as one code point, U+1F40C: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F40C | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐌 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐌 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F40C"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F40C} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%8C | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 8C |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🐌 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the snail emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐌 "snail" and links it with animal, escargot, garden, nature. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the bugs subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the snail emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the snail emoji?
To find 🐌 quickly, type snail into the emoji search.