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