# 🐍 Snake emoji

🐍 Snake is an emoji in the reptiles set of Animals & nature. It was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010. Related words: animal, bearer, Ophiuchus, serpent and zodiac.

- Emoji: 🐍
- Unicode name: snake
- Code points: U+1F40D
- Category: Animals & nature, Reptiles
- Added: Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- GitHub shortcode: :snake:
- Keywords: animal, bearer, Ophiuchus, serpent, snake, zodiac
- Page: https://emojichart.com/snake-emoji

## What it means

Slithering along with a curved body and a forked tongue, this snake is a classic symbol of danger. It is used for snakes, calling someone sneaky or backstabbing, the Python programming language, and the snake of the Chinese zodiac.

## How to type 🐍

- iPhone and iPad: Open the emoji keyboard, tap Search Emoji and type “snake”.
- Android: In Gboard, tap the emoji button and search for “snake”.
- Mac: Press Control–Command–Space (or Globe + E) and type “snake”.
- Windows: Press Windows + . (period) and type “snake”.
- GitHub: Type :snake: in an issue, pull request or comment.

## In other languages

| Language | Name | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Español (es) | serpiente | culebra, reptil, serpiente, víbora |
| Français (fr) | serpent | animal, reptile, serpent, serpent à sonnette, venin |
| Deutsch (de) | Schlange | Schlange, Schlangenträger, Sternzeichen, Tier, Tierkreis |
| Italiano (it) | serpente | animale, animali, biscia, bosco, foresta, pericolo, selvatico, serpe, serpente, vipera |
| Português (pt) | cobra | animal, cobra, réptil, serpente |
| Nederlands (nl) | slang | dier, dierenriem, drager, Ophiuchus, serpent, slang |
| Svenska (sv) | orm | djur, orm |
| Polski (pl) | wąż | dusiciel, jadowity, wąż, żmija, zwierzę |
| Türkçe (tr) | yılan | hayvan, yılan |
| Русский (ru) | змея | гадюка, змееносец, змея, знак, зодиак, опасность, яд |
| Українська (uk) | змія | гадюка, змієносець, змій, змія, зодіак |
| Ελληνικά (el) | φίδι | ερπετό, ζωδιακός, ζώδιο, ζώο, κομιστής, Οφιούχος, φίδι |
| العربية (ar) | ثعبان | أبراج, أفعة, ابراج, الأبراج, الحواء, برج, ثعبان, حية, حيوان, كوكبة الحواء |
| עברית (he) | נחש | ארסי, בעל חיים, זוחל, נחש, קוברה |
| فارسی (fa) | مار | افعی, اهریمن, حامل, زودیاک, مار, مارگیر |
| हिन्दी (hi) | सांप | पशु, राशि, सांप |
| বাংলা (bn) | সাপ | অফিউকাস, নাগ, বাহক, রাশিচক্র, রাশিফল, সাপ |
| Bahasa Indonesia (id) | ular | binatang, hewan, ofiukus, pembawa, reptil, ular, zodiak |
| Tiếng Việt (vi) | rắn | chòm sao xà phu, cung hoàng đạo, động vật, rắn, vật mang |
| ไทย (th) | งู | งู, สัตว์, อสรพิษ |
| 日本語 (ja) | ヘビ | ヘビ, へびつかい座, 動物, 星座, 毒, 爬虫類 |
| 한국어 (ko) | 뱀 | 동물, 뱀, 뱀주인자리, 별자리 |
| 中文（简体） (zh) | 蛇 | 持票人, 狡猾的人, 蛇, 蛇夫座, 黄道十二宫 |
| 中文（繁體） (zh-Hant) | 蛇 | 蛇, 蛇夫座, 青蛇 |

More languages:

- Afrikaans (af): slang
- Akan (ak): ͻwͻ
- Albanian (sq): gjarpër
- Amharic (am): እባብ
- Anii (blo): ʊbu
- Armenian (hy): օձ
- Assamese (as): সাপ
- Azerbaijani (az): ilan
- Bashkir (ba): йылан
- Basque (eu): sugea
- Belarusian (be): змяя
- Bosnian (bs): zmija
- Breton (br): naer
- Bulgarian (bg): змия
- Burmese (my): မြွေ
- Cantonese (yue): 蛇
- Catalan (ca): serp
- Cherokee (chr): ᎢᎾᏓ
- Chuvash (cv): ҫӗлен
- Croatian (hr): zmija
- Czech (cs): had
- Danish (da): slange
- Estonian (et): madu
- Faroese (fo): slanga
- Filipino (fil): ahas
- Finnish (fi): käärme
- Galician (gl): serpe
- Georgian (ka): გველი
- Gujarati (gu): સાપ
- Hausa (ha): maciji
- Hungarian (hu): kígyó
- Icelandic (is): snákur
- Igbo (ig): agwọ
- Irish (ga): nathair
- Javanese (jv): ula
- Kalaallisut (kl): slange
- Kannada (kn): ಹಾವು
- Kazakh (kk): жылан
- Kazakh (Arabic) (kk-Arab): جىلان
- Khmer (km): ពស់
- Kinyarwanda (rw): inzoka
- Konkani (kok): जिवाणें
- Kurdish (ku): mar
- Kyrgyz (ky): жылан
- Kʼicheʼ (quc): Kumatz
- Lao (lo): ງູ
- Latvian (lv): čūska
- Lithuanian (lt): gyvatė
- Lower Sorbian (dsb): wuž
- Luxembourgish (lb): Schlaang
- Macedonian (mk): змија
- Malay (ms): ular
- Malayalam (ml): പാമ്പ്
- Maltese (mt): serp
- Marathi (mr): साप
- Mongolian (mn): могой
- Māori (mi): nākahi
- Nepali (ne): साँप
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm): Snek
- Northern Sotho (nso): noga
- Norwegian (no): slange
- Odia (or): ସାପ
- Oromo (om): bofa
- Pashto (ps): مار
- Punjabi (pa): ਸੱਪ
- Punjabi (Arabic) (pa-Arab): سپ
- Quechua (qu): amaru
- Romanian (ro): șarpe
- Romansh (rm): serp
- Sardinian (sc): colovra
- Scottish Gaelic (gd): nathair
- Serbian (sr): змија
- Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn): zmija
- Shan (shn): ငူး
- Sindhi (sd): نانگ
- Sinhala (si): නයා
- Slovak (sk): had
- Slovenian (sl): kača
- Somali (so): mas
- Swahili (sw): nyoka
- Tajik (tg): мор
- Tamil (ta): பாம்பு
- Telugu (te): పాము
- Tigrinya (ti): ተመን
- Tongan (to): ngata
- Tswana (tn): noga
- Turkmen (tk): ýylan
- Upper Sorbian (hsb): had
- Urdu (ur): سانپ
- Uyghur (ug): يىلان
- Uzbek (uz): ilon
- Welsh (cy): neidr
- Wolof (wo): jaan
- Xhosa (xh): inyoka
- Yoruba (yo): Ejò
- Zulu (zu): inyoka

## Codes

| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Code points | `U+1F40D` |
| HTML | `🐍` |
| CSS | `\1F40D` |
| JavaScript, Rust, Swift | `\u{1F40D}` |
| Python | `\U0001F40D` |
| UTF-8 bytes | `F0 9F 90 8D` |
| UTF-16 | `D83D DC0D` |
| URL encoded | `%F0%9F%90%8D` |

## Questions

### What does the 🐍 snake emoji mean?

Slithering along with a curved body and a forked tongue, this snake is a classic symbol of danger. It is used for snakes, calling someone sneaky or backstabbing, the Python programming language, and the snake of the Chinese zodiac.

### How do I type the 🐍 emoji?

On iPhone, iPad or Android, search the emoji keyboard for “snake”. On a Mac press Control–Command–Space, and on Windows press Windows + period, then type the same words. You can also copy it from this page. On GitHub, type :snake:.

### When was the 🐍 emoji added?

🐍 was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010.

### What is the Unicode code point for 🐍?

U+1F40D. In HTML you can write 🐍, and in JavaScript, Rust or Swift \u{1F40D}.

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Source: Unicode Emoji 18.0 and Unicode CLDR 49.0.0. Emoji Chart · https://emojichart.com/snake-emoji