🐌Snail Emoji
Generally, it means something is slow or taking a long time. People use it to express a feeling of patience or to simply acknowledge a snail.
The 🐌 emoji represents a snail.
- Unicode
- U+1F40C
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :snail:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐌 Snail emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
Snail emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F40C — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your snail looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Snail emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :snail:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the snail, code point U+1F40C.
How to type the 🐌 Snail emoji
No picker to hand? The snail can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Snail emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Snail emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around snail for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🐌, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🐌 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🐌 means in other countries
Universally shorthand for being slow, with zero deeper cultural meaning attached to the emoji itself.
‘Slow as a snail’ describes delays, whether a person or a process.
Common joke about a slow internet connection or a delayed reply.
Before you send it: Safe for teasing about slowness anywhere; it doesn’t read as an insult to character.
What 🐌 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 🐌 Snail emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F40C never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🐌 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E74E, KDDI au EB7E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Snail was approved as U+1F40C and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐌 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.