Spiral shell emoji 🐚
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F41A
What 🐚 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🐚 are animal, beach, conch, sea, shell, spiral. They show what people use it for.
Search for animal or beach on your emoji keyboard and 🐚 is among the results.
You will find 🐚 among the sea animals (18 emoji), part of animals & nature with 161 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🪸 🪼 🦀 🦞.
Will 🐚 show on my friend's phone?
One of the first emoji ever: 🐚 is part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, the set that started on Japanese phones. It shows everywhere.
How to type 🐚
Search for spiral shell in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🐚.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type spiral shell.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type spiral shell in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type spiral shell.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🐚 is one code point (U+1F41A), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F41A | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐚 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐚 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F41A"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F41A} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%9A | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 9A |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🐚 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | spiral shell |
| Português | caramujo |
| Español | caracola |
| Italiano | conchiglia |
| Français | coquille en spirale |
| Deutsch | Schneckenhaus |
| Türkçe | deniz kabuğu |
| Bahasa Indonesia | cangkang spiral |
| Polski | muszla spiralna |
| Русский | раковина |
| 日本語 | 巻き貝 |
| 한국어 | 달팽이집 |
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the spiral shell emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐚 "spiral shell" and links it with animal, beach, conch, sea. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sea animals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the spiral shell 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 spiral shell emoji?
Search for spiral shell in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🐚.