🐌U+1F40C
Snail emoji
Crawling slowly with a spiral shell on its back, this snail is in no hurry. People use it for snails, slowness, gardens, escargot, and snail mail, a joking name for letters sent through the postal service.
- Unicode name
- snail
- Category
- Animals & nature, Bugs
- Added
- Emoji 0.6 in 2010
- Code points
- U+1F40C
- Shortcode
:snail:- Keywords
- animal, escargot, garden, nature, slug, snail
How it looks
How to type 🐌
- iPhone and iPad
- Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “snail”.
- Android
- In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “snail”.
- Mac
- Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “snail”.
- Windows
- Press Windows + . (period) and type “snail”.
- GitHub
- Type :snail: in an issue, pull request or comment.
In other languages
| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español | caracol | caracol, caracola, molusco |
| Français | escargot | animal, escargot, jardin, lentement, nature |
| Deutsch | Schnecke | langsam, Schnecke, Tier |
| Italiano | lumaca | animale, giardino, lentezza, lento, lumachina, lumacone, natura |
| Português | caracol | animal, caracol, escargot |
| Nederlands | slak | dier, escargot, naaktslak, natuur, slak, tuin |
| Svenska | snigel | djur, snigel |
| Polski | ślimak | mięczak, muszla, powolny, ślimak, wolny, zwierzę |
| Türkçe | salyangoz | böcek, hayvan, salyangoz, sümüklü böcek, yavaş |
| Русский | улитка | медленно, ползти, раковина, улитка |
| Українська | равлик | павлик-равлик, петрик, природа, равлик, слимак, тварина |
| Ελληνικά | σαλιγκάρι | γυμνοσάλιαγκας, ζώο, κήπος, μαγειρεμένα σαλιγκάρια, σαλιγκάρι, σαλίγκαρος, φύση |
| العربية | حلزون | بزاق, بزاقة, بزيق, حلزون, حيوان, طبيعة, قوقع, مزبلط |
| עברית | חלזון | בעל חיים, ברלה, חילזון, חלזון, שבלול |
| فارسی | حلزون | جانور, حلزون, حیوان, خزنده, لیسک |
| हिन्दी | घोंघा | घोंघा, पशु |
| বাংলা | শামুক | পশুপাখি, শামুক |
| Bahasa Indonesia | siput | alam, binatang, hewan, keong, siput |
| Tiếng Việt | ốc sên | động vật, ốc sên, thiên nhiên, vườn |
| ไทย | หอยทาก | สัตว์, หอยทาก |
| 日本語 | かたつむり | エスカルゴ, かたつむり, カタツムリ, でんでん虫, 虫 |
| 한국어 | 달팽이 | 달팽이, 동물, 슬러그, 에스카르고, 자연, 정원 |
| 中文（简体） | 蜗牛 | 动物, 自然, 花园, 蜗牛, 食用蜗牛, 鼻涕虫 |
| 中文（繁體） | 蝸牛 | 蝸牛 |
Names in 97 more languages
| Afrikaans | slak |
|---|---|
| Akan | nwa |
| Albanian | kërmill |
| Amharic | ቀንድ አውጣ |
| Anii | ŋŋʊnʊ |
| Armenian | խխունջ |
| Assamese | শামুক |
| Azerbaijani | ilbiz |
| Bashkir | ҡусҡар |
| Basque | barraskiloa |
| Belarusian | смоўж |
| Bosnian | puž |
| Breton | maligorn |
| Bulgarian | охлюв |
| Burmese | ခရု |
| Cantonese | 蝸牛 |
| Cantonese (Simplified) | 蜗牛 |
| Catalan | cargol |
| Cherokee | ᎡᎳᏆ |
| Chuvash | улитка |
| Croatian | puž |
| Czech | hlemýžď |
| Danish | snegl |
| Estonian | tigu |
| Faroese | snigil |
| Filipino | kuhol |
| Finnish | etana |
| Galician | caracol |
| Georgian | ლოკოკინა |
| Gujarati | ગોકળગાય |
| Hausa | dodon koɗi |
| Hungarian | csiga |
| Icelandic | snigill |
| Igbo | ejù |
| Irish | seilide |
| Javanese | bekicot |
| Kalaallisut | snegl |
| Kannada | ಬಸವನ ಹುಳು |
| Kazakh | ұлу |
| Kazakh (Arabic) | ۇلۋ |
| Khmer | ខ្យង |
| Kinyarwanda | ikinyamunjonjorerwa |
| Konkani | गोगलगाय |
| Kyrgyz | үлүл |
| Kʼicheʼ | T’ot’ |
| Lao | ຫອຍທາກ |
| Latvian | gliemezis |
| Lithuanian | sraigė |
| Lower Sorbian | slinik |
| Luxembourgish | Schleek |
| Macedonian | полжав |
| Malay | siput |
| Malayalam | ഒച്ച് |
| Maltese | bebbuxu |
| Marathi | गोगलगाय |
| Mongolian | эмгэн хумс |
| Māori | hātaretare |
| Nepali | चिप्लेकिरा |
| Nigerian Pidgin | Snel |
| Northern Sotho | kgopa |
| Norwegian | snegle |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | snigel |
| Odia | ଗେଣ୍ଡା |
| Oromo | cilalluu |
| Pashto | شاپېټی |
| Punjabi | ਘੋਗਾ |
| Punjabi (Arabic) | گھونگا |
| Quechua | churu |
| Romanian | melc |
| Romansh | lindorna |
| Sardinian | corrobaca |
| Scottish Gaelic | seilcheag |
| Serbian | пуж |
| Serbian (Latin) | puž |
| Shan | ႁွႆတၢၵ်ႇ |
| Sindhi | سيپي |
| Sinhala | ගොළුබෙල්ලා |
| Slovak | slimák |
| Slovenian | polž |
| Somali | dixiri qolof leh |
| Swahili | konokono |
| Tajik | тӯқумшуллуқ |
| Tamil | நத்தை |
| Telugu | నత్త |
| Tigrinya | ኣረነ |
| Tongan | ʻelili |
| Tswana | kgopa |
| Turkmen | ulitka |
| Upper Sorbian | šlink |
| Urdu | گھونگھا |
| Uyghur | قۇلۇلە |
| Uzbek | shilliqqurt |
| Welsh | malwoden |
| Wolof | eskargoo |
| Xhosa | inkumba |
| Yoruba | Ìgbín |
| Zulu | umnenke |
Codes
- Code points
U+1F40C- HTML
🐌- CSS
\1F40C- JavaScript, Rust, Swift
\u{1F40C}- Python
\U0001F40C- UTF-8 bytes
F0 9F 90 8C- UTF-16
D83D DC0C- URL encoded
%F0%9F%90%8C
Questions
What does the 🐌 snail emoji mean?
Crawling slowly with a spiral shell on its back, this snail is in no hurry. People use it for snails, slowness, gardens, escargot, and snail mail, a joking name for letters sent through the postal service.
How do I type the 🐌 emoji?
On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “snail”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :snail:.
When was the 🐌 emoji added?
🐌 was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010.
What is the Unicode code point for 🐌?
U+1F40C. In HTML you can write 🐌, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F40C}.