Snake represents a snake, and is also used to call someone a traitor or two-faced. 🐍 Snake is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F40D and it was released in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🐍 Snake mean?
Snake represents a snake, and is also used to call someone a traitor or two-faced. Taylor Swift famously adopted the snake for her Reputation era. It also marks the Year of the Snake in the Chinese zodiac.
🐍 is the Snake emoji, listed under Animals & Nature → Reptiles in the Unicode emoji standard. It is commonly associated with animal, bearer, ophiuchus, serpent and zodiac. It was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :snake: to insert it.
Snake emoji codes
| Emoji | 🐍 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F40D |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🐍 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🐍 |
| CSS | \1F40D |
| JavaScript | \u{1F40D} |
| Python | \U0001F40D |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%90%8D |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 8D |
| Shortcode | :snake: |
How to type 🐍 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “snake”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “snake”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “snake”.
- HTML: write
🐍in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Snake keywords
- animal
- bearer
- ophiuchus
- serpent
- zodiac
Frequently asked questions
What does 🐍 mean?
Snake represents a snake, and is also used to call someone a traitor or two-faced. Taylor Swift famously adopted the snake for her Reputation era. It also marks the Year of the Snake in the Chinese zodiac.
How do I copy and paste the Snake emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🐍 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🐍 Snake added to Unicode?
Snake was released as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.
Related Reptiles emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.