The sloth emoji is your laid‑back, zero‑rush status update, perfect for confessing delayed replies, procrastination, or cozy nap ambitions. It’s meme-speak for “I’ll be there in 5–7 business days,” a self-deprecating way to admit you’re moving at 1 FPS, or an ironic flex under a hustle post. On Apple/iOS, the design shows a soft brown sloth clinging to a horizontal tree branch in side profile, with a pale beige face, tiny smile, dark button nose, small dark eyes, and long curved claws wrapping the wood in a cute, friendly cartoon style. Those instantly recognizable details—the gentle smile, rounded body, and branch-hugging pose—telegraph “slow and steady” without a single word. In texts and DMs, it doubles as a slow-reply apology, a “Sunday sloth” mood stamp, or a flirty “I’m clingy like this” joke when you’re feeling extra cuddly. Pop-culture bonus: it evokes Zootopia’s DMV legend Flash, plus countless nature-doc cameos and Costa Rica sanctuary selfies. People drop it under study-break posts, anti-hustle self-care captions, or “hang in there” puns when life demands sloth speed. It can also land sarcastically—paired with a missed deadline or a buffering GIF—to soft-launch the fact that you’re absolutely not rushing.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 538 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - 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) | 1f9a5 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9A5 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129445 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0xA5 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A6 A5 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 246 245 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDA5 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edda5 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56741 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9A5 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9A5 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129445 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9A5" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa6\xa5" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDA5" |
