snail

Group: Animals & nature · Subgroup: Animal bug · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

animal
escargot
garden
nature
slug
snail

About this character

snail belongs to the Animals & nature group and is encoded at U+1F40C. It was added in Unicode 0.6.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F40C
Hex: 1F40C
Decimal: 128012
HTML: 🐌
CSS: \1F40C
JavaScript: \u{1F40C}
Python: \U0001F40C
UTF-8: F0 9F 90 8C

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

butterfly U+1F98B
bug U+1F41B
ant U+1F41C
honeybee U+1F41D
beetle U+1FAB2
lady beetle U+1F41E
cricket U+1F997
cockroach U+1FAB3
spider U+1F577
spider web U+1F578
scorpion U+1F982
mosquito U+1F99F
fly U+1FAB0
worm U+1FAB1
microbe U+1F9A0

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.