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🐢 Turtle

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🐢 Emoji meaning

Slow and steady wins the race! Leisurely, slowly, calmly.

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🐢 Meaning

Turtles live to be between 40 and 100 years old and they move very slowly. You have a quiet day, you are moving or somebody dresses up in carnival as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

Examples

Nice and easy! 🐢
I'm taking my time. 🐢
Why are you moving so slow? 🐢

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

Turtle

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Frog vs turtle; both small green creatures sometimes used generically as ‘cute reptile/amphibian’.

Turtle

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Turtle vs crocodile; both green reptiles with shells/scales, silhouette alone can mislead users.

Same Shape

Turtle

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Crocodile vs turtle; long snout vs shell detail can be hard to see at emoji size.

Turtle

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Snail vs turtle; both slow-moving shelled creatures, shell shapes may cause confusion.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Turtle” 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.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ animal

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ turtle + tortoise + terrapin

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- turtle - tortoise - terrapin

In the release of Emoji 1.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ tortoise + terrapin

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