Animals & Nature · Emoji 0.6
🐍Snake Emoji
Generally, the snake emoji means someone is being sly, deceptive, or a bit of a trickster. It’s often used in playful arguments or when pointing out someone’s sneaky behavior.
The snake emoji 🐍 represents the reptile itself.
- Unicode
- U+1F40D
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :snake:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🐍 Snake emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
02 — Platforms
Snake emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the snake has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Snake emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :snake:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F40D.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🐍 Snake emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Snake emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the snake as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Snake emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around snake for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →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.
08 — In conversation
What 🐍 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 🐍 means in other countries
In English slang “a snake” means a two-faced friend, so sending it at someone reads as calling them a backstabber.
labels someone as disloyal or deceitful, popularized in public feuds like Taylor Swift's 2016 backlash
neutral, just refers to the zodiac animal and its year
means the animal itself, no accusation implied
Before you send it: Skip it in a message to a friend unless you actually mean to call them out — there's no soft reading of it.
10 — Apps
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.
12 — History
Where the 🐍 Snake 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+1F40D 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
KDDI au EB22, SoftBank E52D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Snake was approved as U+1F40D 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.
13 — FAQ