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🐍Snake Emoji
The snake emoji 🐍 carries the codepoint U+1F40D and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Animals & Nature → Reptiles.
What 🐍 snake means
Cold-blooded and mostly metaphorical. 🐍 rarely refers to the animal; it labels someone a backstabber, a sense that hardened during mid-2010s celebrity feuds and stuck. 🐉 and 🐲 serve fantasy, Lunar New Year and gaming posts, while 🐢 means slow — a slow connection, a slow reply, a slow week. 🦕 sauropod and 🦖 T-Rex both arrived in Emoji 5.0.
Unicode tags this one animal, bearer and ophiuchus and files it under Animals & Nature → Reptiles.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F40D | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🐍 | |
| HTML decimal | 🐍 | |
| CSS | \1F40D | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F40D} | |
| Python | \U0001F40D | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC0D | |
| Rust | \u{1f40d} | |
| Swift | \u{1F40D} | |
| PHP | \u{1F40D} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%90%8D | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 8D | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC0D | |
| Base64 | 8J+QjQ== | |
| Decimal | 128013 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🐍
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “snake”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “animal”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f40dand Enter. - HTML — paste
🐍.
How 🐍 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🐍Apple
- 🐍Segoe
- 🐍Noto
- 🐍System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🐍 snake emoji mean?+
🐍 is the snake emoji, tagged animal, bearer and ophiuchus. Cold-blooded and mostly metaphorical. 🐍 rarely refers to the animal; it labels someone a backstabber, a sense that hardened during mid-2010s celebrity feuds and stuck. 🐉 and 🐲 serve fantasy, Lunar New Year and gaming posts, while 🐢 means slow — a slow connection, a slow reply, a slow week. 🦕 sauropod and 🦖 T-Rex both arrived in Emoji 5.0.
What is the Unicode code for 🐍?+
snake is U+1F40D. In HTML that is 🐍, in CSS \1F40D, and in JavaScript \u{1F40D}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🐍 emoji added?+
snake got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Reptiles in Animals & Nature.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🐍 snake.