Spiral Shell

Cáscara espiral

A spiral shell or sea shell made by a sea creature and found at the beach. Shells are hard and provide protection to small creatures. A shell made of calcium carbonate, potentially that of a sea snail. Hermit crabs love to find empty sea snail shells that they can move into and protect themselves from predators. Frequently used to mean beach or crab.

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)	609 of 2393
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Phantom Open Emoji Picture	Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:shell:
Keywords	Shell, Spiral, Beach, Sand, Crab, Nautilus

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range	1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory	Animal Symbols

Editorial Comment

This is a cool looking shell! I wonder if a critter will get inside it and use it as defense from a predators. In iOS 5 the image was updated to correctly reflect the different (and much snazzier mind you) type of shell. iEmoji old name: White Clam Shell. This white sea shell forms in salt water is also called a bivalve shell.

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Human/living Things
Unicode Subcategory	Animal Symbols
Names & Annotations	SPIRAL SHELL
Symbol Information	U+1F41A proposed
Proposal Identifier	e-1C6

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	[巻貝]
KDDI	#485 巻き貝「巻ki貝」 U+EAEC SJIS-F3C0 JIS-7A42
Softbank	#135 #old412 貝 U+E441 SJIS-FB82

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)	e441
Formal Unicode Notation	U+E441
Decimal Code Point(s)	58433
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xEE 0x91 0x81
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	EE 91 81
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	356 221 201
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE441
UTF-16 Hex	e441
UTF-16 Dec	58433
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0000E441
UTF-32 Hex	E441
UTF-32 Dec	58433
Python Src	u"\uE441"
PHP Src	"\xee\x91\x81"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uE441"

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)	1f41a
Formal Unicode Notation	U+1F41A
Decimal Code Point(s)	128026
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x9A
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	F0 9F 90 9A
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	360 237 220 232
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xD83D 0xDC1A
UTF-16 Hex	d83ddc1a
UTF-16 Dec	55357 56346
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0001F41A
UTF-32 Hex	01F41A
UTF-32 Dec	128026
Python Src	u"\U0001F41A"
PHP Src	"\xf0\x9f\x90\x9a"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uD83D\uDC1A"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)

Emoji Encoding	KDDI	Google
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)		󾇆
UTF-8 Character Count	1	1
Character(s) In Input
Decimal HTML Entity		󾇆
Hexadecimal HTML Entity		󾇆
Hex Code Point(s)	eaec	fe1c6
Formal Unicode Notation	U+EAEC	U+FE1C6
Decimal Code Point(s)	60140	1040838
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xEE 0xAB 0xAC	0xF3 0xBE 0x87 0x86
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	EE AB AC	F3 BE 87 86
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	356 253 254	363 276 207 206
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xEAEC	0xDBB8 0xDDC6
UTF-16 Hex	eaec	dbb8ddc6
UTF-16 Dec	60140	56248 56774
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0000EAEC	0x000FE1C6
UTF-32 Hex	EAEC	0FE1C6
UTF-32 Dec	60140	1040838
Python Src	u"\uEAEC"	u"\U000FE1C6"
PHP Src	"\xee\xab\xac"	"\xf3\xbe\x87\x86"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uEAEC"	"\uDBB8\uDDC6"

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