🐢 Turtle

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, Microsoft and Facebook’s a yellow-rimmed shell.

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