Snake
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- Shortcode
:snake:- Unicode
U+1F40D- HTML
🐍- CSS
\1F40D- JavaScript
"\u{1F40D}"- URL
%F0%9F%90%8D
What ๐ means
A snake. Calling someone a "snake" means they are sneaky, two-faced or untrustworthy, and that is the most common meaning.
People drop it in comment sections and group chats to accuse someone of betrayal. Programmers use it for the Python language, and it marks the Year of the Snake in Lunar New Year posts.
Taylor Swift fans also use ๐ as a nod to her reclaiming the snake during a public feud.
Facts
Snake ๐ is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal reptile. 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 :snake:. People also look for it with words like โOphiuchusโ, โanimalโ, โbearerโ, or โserpentโ.
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.