A seashell, as found at the beach. Generally depicted as an empty, spiraling, white seashell, as grown by a sea snail or home to a hermit crab. Positioned at various angles across platforms.
Often used for various content concerning beaches, ocean and ocean life, and summer fun.
Apple’s design previously resembled a clam shell, Microsoft’s a snail shell. Google’s was previously blue.
Spiral Shell was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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? Spiral shell