Snail Emoji 🐌

What 🐌 means

A full-body profile of a snail with a brown spiral shell and a slimy body of a lighter shade that tapers from the head to the tail. The face doesn't show any detailing except for two antennas on top of the head.

The 🐌 Snail emoji refers to a garden snail, but it can be used while suggesting other breeds too. This emoji signifies slow movement, slimy nature, quick self-defense, and a sense of being calm, easy-going, and taking things slow.

How and when to use it

• If you're discussing about a life decision that you're planning to take slow, you can use 🐌 in that context. Like, "I think the best way forward is to not rush into things and instead, take it slow 🐌".
• You can use 🐌 to generally refer to anything that is slow, even your bestie who takes forever to get dressed.
• Apart from slow movement, snails can signify patience. So, if you're advising someone about being patient, you can use 🐌 in such a conversation. For instance, "Delayed gratification is alright in the face of hard work and true work 🐌".
• If you love snails and/or you love their vibe, or you just love the 🐌 emoji, you can use it in your social media profile name.
• Lastly, use 🐌 while sharing posts about snails; it can be an informative post, a funny meme, or even a portrait from your own snail photography archive.

Other Names

• 🐌 Garden Snail
• 🐌 Slug
• 🐌 Land Snail
• 🐌 Shelled Gastropod
• 🐌 Grove Snail
• 🐌 Gastropod
• 🐌 Mollusca
• 🐌 Gary the Snail
• 🐌 Turbo (the snail)

The lowdown

Category

Animals & Nature › animal-bug

Codepoints

U+1F40C

Emoji version

Emoji 0.6

Shortcodes

:snail:

Keywords

animal, escargot, garden, nature, slug, snail

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.

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