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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

Turtle 3D

3D

Turtle Color

Color

Turtle Flat

Flat

Turtle High Contrast

High Contrast

Version Information

Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0

Keywords

terrapintortoiseturtle

Shortcodes

PlatformShortcodeAction
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.