🐌 Snail

🐌 Snail is one of the bugs in Unicode's Animals & Nature group. It usually appears in messages about animal, escargot, garden and nature. Further official keywords are slug.

🐌 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Animals and Nature. The character has been part of the standard since 2010 (Emoji 0.6). Its code point is U+1F40C.

• A single 🐌 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about animal, escargot, garden and nature.
• Often seen near 🐛 Bug, 🦋 Butterfly and 🐜 Ant.

The snail means slowness everywhere, though not everywhere pejoratively: in Japan it stands for patience, and in Christianity it stood for resurrection, because it seals itself away in winter and reappears in spring.

In France escargots are a culinary classic; in Germany many find the idea off-putting – the same animal, two entirely different chains of association.

• 🐌🪲 – Snail and Beetle
• 🐌🪳 – Snail with Cockroach
• 🐌🕷️ – Snail plus Spider
• 🐌🦂 – Snail and Scorpion
• 🐌🐛 – Snail with Bug
• 🐌🕸️ – Snail plus Spider Web
• 🐌🐞 – Snail and Lady Beetle
• 🐌🐝 – Snail with Honeybee

Easy to mix up with 🐛 Bug, 🦋 Butterfly or 🐜 Ant. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.