🐌️ Snail emoji

What is 🐌️ called?

🐌️ is called the Snail emoji.

What does 🐌️ mean?

🐌 is officially named snail. It represents these slow-moving gastropods, symbolizing patience, taking time, or going slow. This emoji is used when expressing slowness, patience, or referring to actual snails and garden life.

Use it for literal references to snail, and for slowness, patience, taking time, garden life, leisurely pace, deliberate movement. The surrounding words should make literal, figurative, cultural, or seasonal intent clear. Related choices include 🦋 Butterfly and 🐛 Bug.

Other meanings

It can mean slowness, patience, taking time, garden life, leisurely pace, deliberate movement. Context determines whether the message is literal, symbolic, culinary, seasonal, humorous, or cultural.

Example Usage

This download is moving at a snail pace 🐌 so slow!

Learning more about the snail today 🐌

More details

Officially named snail. Its code point is U+1F40C. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0. “Slug emoji” appears in search, but a slug generally lacks the prominent external shell that defines this snail artwork.

Related emoji

Not in any emoji groups yet.

Visual description

A brown snail with a spiral shell on its back, showing the characteristic body, tentacles with eyes, and coiled shell house.

“Slug emoji” appears in search, but a slug generally lacks the prominent external shell that defines this snail artwork. Colours, proportions, pose, and fine details vary by platform.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.