U+1F40C "🐌" Snail Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🐌
U+1F40C "🐌" Snail is a visual representation of a slow moving gastropod mollusk, often depicted with a coiled shell on its back and two antennae extending from its head. It is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize slowness, patience, or gradual progress, as well as to represent the animal itself in contexts like nature, gardening, or culinary discussions involving escargot. This character belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and was introduced as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010, becoming a popular emoji for expressing a relaxed or leisurely pace.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F40C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Snail |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🐌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🐌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F40C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc0c |