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Snake

A snake, a slithering reptile without limbs. Generally depicted as a yellowish-green snake facing left, with a long, coiled body and flicking a red, forked tongue.

May be used for various metaphorical senses of snake.

One of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. May also be used in association with ⛎ Ophiuchus, the Serpent-Bearer, sometimes considered a 13th sign of the Western zodiac.

Samsung’s snake was previously facing forward.

Snake was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.