The snake emoji slithers into chats as the universal sign for someone being sneaky, shady, or full-on betraying the group chat’s trust—think “she’s a snake” with extra hiss. It’s also reclaimed as a power move, thanks to pop culture moments like Taylor Swift’s Reputation era, where the serpent went from insult to stadium-size stage prop. On stan Twitter and TikTok, dropping this emoji adds instant drama, whether you’re teasing a plot twist, calling out a backstabber, or just giving sly, sneaky energy. It can even flirt in a mischievous way—like stealth-mode vibes when you’re sliding into DMs or making a slick, tongue-in-cheek joke.
IRL associations pop up too: Slytherin aesthetics, Chinese zodiac Year of the Snake, herpetology nerd life, the “no step on snek” meme, and even throwbacks to the Nokia Snake game. On Apple/iOS, it’s a vivid green serpent in an S-curve, facing left, with glossy shading, a pointed head, one bold eye, and that instantly recognizable red forked tongue (tiny fangs peeking, if you look close). Because it looks mid-slither, people use it to imply stealth, danger, or “I’m moving in silence.” It’s the perfect punchline for a shady subtweet, a campy villain caption, or a playful warning that something slippery this way comes.
Definition
A sneaky looking snake coiled up with its tongue out to collect data for its Jacobson's organ.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
206 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:snake:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Coiled Green Snake
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Human/living Things
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Symbols
Names & Annotations
SNAKE * sixth of the signs of the Asian zodiac
Symbol Information
U+1F40D proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-1D3
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[ヘビ]
KDDI
#720 ヘビ 「hebi」 U+EB22 SJIS-F3E3 JIS-7A65
Softbank
#133 #old468 へび 「hebi」 U+E52D SJIS-FBCD
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e52d
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E52D
Decimal Code Point(s)
58669
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x94 0xAD
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 94 AD
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 224 255
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE52D
UTF-16 Hex
e52d
UTF-16 Dec
58669
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E52D
UTF-32 Hex
E52D
UTF-32 Dec
58669
Python Src
u"\uE52D"
PHP Src
"\xee\x94\xad"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE52D"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🐍
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🐍
Decimal HTML Entity
🐍
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🐍
Hex Code Point(s)
1f40d
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F40D
Decimal Code Point(s)
128013
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x8D
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 90 8D
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 220 215
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDC0D
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddc0d
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56333
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F40D
UTF-32 Hex
01F40D
UTF-32 Dec
128013
Python Src
u"\U0001F40D"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x90\x8d"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDC0D"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
