| Emoji | 🐚 |
| Name | spiral shell |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F41A |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Subcategory | Animal Marine |
| Emoji Version | 0.6 |
| Tags | animal, beach, conch, sea, shell, spiral |
| Decimal Value | 128026 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F41A |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 🐚 / 🐚 |
The spiral shell emoji represents an animal, plant, or natural phenomenon, commonly used literally (talking about the actual animal or plant) or figuratively as a personality/mood reference (many animals carry informal symbolic associations in casual conversation).
Category context: The Animals & Nature category spans wildlife, pets, insects, marine life, plants, and weather — among the most globally recognizable and culturally neutral emoji, since animals and nature are common reference points across languages.
Cataloged under Animal Marine within the Animals & Nature category, spiral shell is the 108th of 160 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 0.6 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F41A.
💡 Good to know: For educational or scientific content, pairing this emoji with the actual species or term name avoids ambiguity, since emoji renderings can be stylized rather than scientifically precise.
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The spiral shell emoji is Unicode U+1F41A.
The spiral shell emoji represents an animal, plant, or natural phenomenon, commonly used literally (talking about the actual animal or plant) or figuratively as a personality/mood reference (many animals carry informal symbolic associations in casual conversation).