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🐢 Turtle
Also known as: Tortoise
Unicode: U+1F422
Description
A turtle, a slow-moving reptile with a shell. Depicted as a light-green turtle in full profile on all fours facing left, with a long neck and green, textured shell. May be used to represent a tortoise and various senses of slow. WhatsApp’s turtle has light-brown skin, Facebook’s a yellow-rimmed shell.
Image Variants

3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
terrapintortoiseturtle
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :turtle: | |
GitHub | :turtle: | |
Slack | :turtle: | |
Discord | :turtle: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Animal symbols
Definition:
A turtle with shell. Looks similar to a tortoise. Turtle was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Copy an http://emojipedia.org/turtle/
Adjectives:
- Not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- Spread over a comparatively long time.
Nouns:
- Any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water
- Any of several North American turtles, of the family Emydidae, that live in fresh or brackish water.
- Terrapin is a term used in English for several smaller species of turtle living in fresh or brackish water.
- North American turtle.
- Tortoises are a family of land-dwelling turtles in the order Testudines.
- A land-dwelling reptile
- Usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica
- Family of turtles that live on land
- Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of family Testudinidae, whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.
- Any herbivorous terrestrial chelonian reptile of the family Testudinidae, of most warm regions, having a heavy dome-shaped shell and clawed limbs.
- Any land or marine reptile of the order , characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body.
- The order of turtles.