🐢 Turtle

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Emoji Meaning

1

An icon of a turtle facing left, its deep green, textured shell detailed to convey a leisurely pace—commonly used to symbolize slowness.

2

The turtle is a reptile protected by a remarkably sturdy shell, which it uses as a safe refuge from threats and predators. Shown here in full size with rich green tones, its shell reveals a clearly segmented structure.

Turtles are charming animals that swim effortlessly and also roam on land. They're famously slow creatures, so the turtle often appears in conversation as a lighthearted metaphor when someone takes too long to do something. In that way the turtle resembles the sloth.

Also Known As

  • 🐢 Tortoise

Apple Name

  • 🐢 Turtle

Unicode Name

  • 🐢 Turtle

🐢 Emoji Codes

Codepoints

U+1F422

Shortcodes

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For developers

URL escape code %F0%9F%90%A2
Punycode xn--qo8h
Bytes (UTF-8) F0 9F 90 A2
JavaScript, JSON, Java \uD83D\uDC22
C, C++, Python \U0001f422
CSS \01F422
PHP, Ruby \u{1F422}
Perl \x{1F422}
HTML hex 🐢
HTML dec 🐢

Tags: terrapin, tortoise, turtle

Category: Animals & Nature

Subgroup: Reptiles