🐍 Snake
🐍 Emoji meaning
Sneakiness, deception, Chinese zodiac sign.
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🐍 Meaning
The hissing snake stands for furtiveness and deception. A person pretends to be your friend, but is badmouthing you behind your back. Also represents a zodiac sign in the Chinese horoscope.
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Lizard vs snake; both small green reptiles that can be used generically for ‘reptile’.
Same Shape
Snake vs dragon; long, serpentine bodies make them look similar especially in stylized fonts.
Dragon face vs snake; both scaly heads with open mouths that can represent dangerous reptiles.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Snake” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
Keywords added
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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Comments
(1) Comment
Anonymous This emoji is used to indicate “ex“.