Snail Emoji

Animals

A side-profile illustration of a garden snail with a spiraled brown shell and its soft body stretched out. It is shown crawling on its belly, highlighting its characteristic pace.

Usage Context

Used to describe someone moving at a glacial speed, to complain about poor internet connection, or to emphasize patience. It is often paired with the 🐢 to highlight a slow process or with the 🍃 for a nature-themed post.

History

Added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 as part of the initial wave of animal emojis that standardized common garden creatures for mobile messaging apps. Its design was inspired by early vector graphics used in Japanese phone carriers to convey movement and mood through biology.

Details

Glyph

🐌

Unicode

U+1F40C

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f40c:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC0C;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-bug

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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