U+1F40D "🐍" Snake Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🐍
U+1F40D "🐍" Snake is a pictographic representation of a snake, typically depicted as a green serpent with a coiled or slithering posture, often showing its forked tongue. It is part of the Emoticons and Emoji block in the Unicode standard, commonly used in digital communication to symbolize reptiles, danger, cunning, or healing, referencing cultural motifs such as the serpent in the Garden of Eden or the Rod of Asclepius. The character also appears in contexts related to nature, wildlife, or the zodiac sign of the Snake in Chinese astrology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F40D |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Snake |
| 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 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC0D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F40D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc0d |