Spiral Shell Emoji 🐚

U+1F41A

Emoji Meaning

A spiral shell. It's generally depicted as an empty spiral white shell abandoned by a snail. Or as a house for a hermit crab. It is widely used for various content related to sea, beaches, and summer vacation.

The symbol “Spiral Shell” is included in the “Animal symbols” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Marine Animal” subcategory of the “Animals & Nature” category.

This text is also available in: Español; Русский;

Synonyms

beach, seashell, shell.

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Unicode Name	Spiral Shell
Unicode Number
Plane	1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Subblock	Animal symbols
Unicode Version	6.0 (2010)
Emoji Version	1.0 (2015)
Emoji Category	Animals & Nature
Emoji Subcategory	Marine Animal
Emoji Name	Spiral Shell

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	1F41A
Simple case change	1F41A
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	F0 9F 90 9A	240 159 144 154	4036989082	11110000 10011111 10010000 10011010
UTF-16BE	D8 3D DC 1A	216 61 220 26	3627932698	11011000 00111101 11011100 00011010
UTF-16LE	3D D8 1A DC	61 216 26 220	1037572828	00111101 11011000 00011010 11011100
UTF-32BE	00 01 F4 1A	0 1 244 26	128026	00000000 00000001 11110100 00011010
UTF-32LE	1A F4 01 00	26 244 1 0	452198656	00011010 11110100 00000001 00000000