Snail
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- Shortcode
:snail:- Unicode
U+1F40C- HTML
🐌- CSS
\1F40C- JavaScript
"\u{1F40C}"- URL
%F0%9F%90%8C
What ๐ means
A snail with its spiral shell. It means painfully slow.
"Snail mail" makes it the sign for paper letters and slow shipping. People also send it to complain that something is moving "at a snail's pace," and food lovers use it for escargot.
Facts
Snail ๐ is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal bug. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :snail:. People also look for it with words like โanimalโ, โescargotโ, โgardenโ, or โnatureโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.