Spiral Shell Emoji 🐚
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.
Synonyms
beach, seashell, shell.
| Unicode Name | Spiral Shell |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| 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 |
