U+1F41A "🐚" Spiral Shell Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F41A "🐚" Spiral Shell is a pictographic representation of a seashell, typically depicted as a spiraling, cone shaped shell with a pointed end and horizontal ridges or stripes along its body. This glyph belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0. It is commonly used to symbolize the beach, the ocean, marine life, or the concept of listening to the sea, as well as carrying metaphorical meanings of growth, protection, or the spiral of life found in nature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F41A |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Spiral Shell |
| 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 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F41A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc1a |