# 🐢 Turtle emoji

🐢 Turtle is an emoji in the reptiles set of Animals & nature. It was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010. Related words: animal, terrapin and tortoise.

- Emoji: 🐢
- Unicode name: turtle
- Code points: U+1F422
- Category: Animals & nature, Reptiles
- Added: Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- GitHub shortcode: :turtle:
- Keywords: animal, terrapin, tortoise, turtle
- Page: https://emojichart.com/turtle-emoji

## What it means

Plodding along under a domed shell, this turtle takes its time. People use it for turtles and tortoises, slow and steady progress, beaches and sea life, and taking things at a calm pace.

## How to type 🐢

- iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “turtle”.
- Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “turtle”.
- Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “turtle”.
- Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “turtle”.
- GitHub: Type :turtle: in an issue, pull request or comment.

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | tortuga | galápago, tortuga |
| Français (fr) | tortue | animal, carapace, lentement, reptile, tortue |
| Deutsch (de) | Schildkröte | Schildkröte, Tier |
| Italiano (it) | tartaruga | animale, animali, lenta, lentezza, lento, tartaruga |
| Português (pt) | tartaruga | animal, tartaruga |
| Nederlands (nl) | schildpad | dier, schildpad, waterschildpad |
| Svenska (sv) | sköldpadda | havssköldpadda, padda, sköldpadda |
| Polski (pl) | żółw | powolny, skorupa, żółw, zwierzę |
| Türkçe (tr) | kaplumbağa | hayvan, kaplumbağa |
| Русский (ru) | черепаха | зеленая, черепаха |
| Українська (uk) | черепаха | тварина, черепаха |
| Ελληνικά (el) | χελώνα | ζώο, νεροχελώνα, χελώνα |
| العربية (ar) | سلحفاة | حيوان, زلحفة, سلحفاة, مزرعة |
| עברית (he) | צב | בעל חיים, צב, שלחופה |
| فارسی (fa) | لاک‌پشت | سنگ‌پشت, کاس‌پشت, کاسه‌پشت, لاک‌پشت |
| हिन्दी (hi) | कछुआ | कछुआ, पशु |
| বাংলা (bn) | কচ্ছপ | কচ্ছপ, কাছিম, পশুপাখি, প্রাণী |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | kura-kura | binatang, hewan, kura-kura, penyu, reptil, terrapin |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | rùa | con rùa, động vật, rùa, rùa nước ngọt |
| ไทย (th) | เต่า | เต่า, สัตว์ |
| 日本語 (ja) | カメ | カメ, 亀, 動物, 爬虫類 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 거북이 | 거북, 거북이, 동물 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 龟 | 乌龟, 海龟, 陆龟, 龟 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 烏龜 | 烏龜, 龜 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): waterskilpad
- Akan (ak): Akyekyedeɛ
- Albanian (sq): breshkë
- Amharic (am): ኤሊ
- Anii (blo): abʊŋajakpa
- Armenian (hy): կրիա
- Assamese (as): কাছ
- Azerbaijani (az): tısbağa
- Bashkir (ba): ташбаҡа
- Basque (eu): dortoka
- Belarusian (be): чарапаха
- Bosnian (bs): kornjača
- Breton (br): baot
- Bulgarian (bg): костенурка
- Burmese (my): လိပ်
- Cantonese (yue): 海龜
- Cantonese (Simplified) (yue-Hans): 海龟
- Catalan (ca): tortuga
- Cherokee (chr): ᏓᎦᏏ
- Chuvash (cv): тимӗр шапа
- Croatian (hr): kornjača
- Czech (cs): želva
- Danish (da): skildpadde
- Estonian (et): kilpkonn
- Faroese (fo): skjaldbøka
- Filipino (fil): pagong
- Finnish (fi): kilpikonna
- Fula (Adlam) (ff-Adlm): 𞤳𞤫𞤳𞤵𞤱𞤢𞤤
- Galician (gl): tartaruga
- Georgian (ka): კუ
- Gujarati (gu): કાચબો
- Hausa (ha): ƙififfiya
- Hungarian (hu): teknős
- Icelandic (is): skjaldbaka
- Igbo (ig): mbè
- Irish (ga): turtar
- Javanese (jv): kura-kura
- Kalaallisut (kl): skildpadde
- Kannada (kn): ಆಮೆ
- Kazakh (kk): тасбақа
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): تاسباقا
- Khmer (km): អណ្តើក
- Kinyarwanda (rw): akanyamasyo
- Konkani (kok): कासव
- Kurdish (ku): kûsî
- Kyrgyz (ky): ташбака
- Kʼicheʼ (quc): Kok
- Lao (lo): ເຕົ່າ
- Latvian (lv): bruņurupucis
- Lithuanian (lt): vėžlys
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): nopawa
- Luxembourgish (lb): Deckelsmouk
- Macedonian (mk): желка
- Malay (ms): penyu
- Malayalam (ml): ആമ
- Maltese (mt): fekruna
- Marathi (mr): कासव
- Mongolian (mn): яст мэлхий
- Māori (mi): honu
- Nepali (ne): कछुवा
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Tọ́tul
- Northern Sotho (nso): khudu ya ka meetseng
- Norwegian (no): skilpadde
- Norwegian Nynorsk (nn): skjelpadde
- Odia (or): କଇଁଛ
- Pashto (ps): شمشتۍ
- Punjabi (pa): ਕੱਛੂਕੁੰਮਾ
- Punjabi (Arabic) (pa-Arab): کچھوا
- Quechua (qu): tortuga
- Romanian (ro): broască țestoasă
- Romansh (rm): tartaruga
- Sardinian (sc): tostòine
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): turtar
- Serbian (sr): корњача
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): kornjača
- Shan (shn): တဝ်ႇ
- Sindhi (sd): ڪمي
- Sinhala (si): ඉබ්බා
- Slovak (sk): korytnačka
- Slovenian (sl): želva
- Somali (so): qubo
- Swahili (sw): mzee kobe
- Tajik (tg): сангпушти обӣ
- Tamil (ta): ஆமை
- Telugu (te): తాబేలు
- Tigrinya (ti): ጎብየ
- Tongan (to): fonu
- Tswana (tn): khudu
- Turkmen (tk): pyşdyl
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): nopawa
- Urdu (ur): کچھوا
- Uyghur (ug): تاشپاقا
- Uzbek (uz): toshbaqa
- Welsh (cy): crwban y môr
- Wolof (wo): mbonaat
- Xhosa (xh): ufudo
- Yoruba (yo): Adaba
- Zulu (zu): ufudu

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F422` |
| HTML | `🐢` |
| CSS | `\1F422` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F422}` |
| Python | `\U0001F422` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F 90 A2` |
| UTF-16 | `D83D DC22` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%90%A2` |

## Questions

### What does the 🐢 turtle emoji mean?

Plodding along under a domed shell, this turtle takes its time. People use it for turtles and tortoises, slow and steady progress, beaches and sea life, and taking things at a calm pace.

### How do I type the 🐢 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “turtle”. 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 :turtle:.

### When was the 🐢 emoji added?

🐢 was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010.

### What is the Unicode code point for 🐢?

U+1F422. In HTML you can write 🐢, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F422}.

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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/turtle-emoji