sloth
Nature and animals
What it means when sent
Laziness and slack; the right character for a weekend spent doing nothing at all.
- Code point
- U+1F9A5
- Code points
- 1
A single code point. One backspace deletes it.
Animals carry different meanings by culture. 🐷 is cute in one place and an insult in another; 🦊 sits between clever and sly.
Using emojis
- Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere — it is text, not an image, so its size follows the font around it.
- Sender and receiver on different devices see different drawings. Apple, Google and Samsung each draw their own, and for some emojis that changes the meaning (🙃, 😅).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare 👍 reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking — they are usually stripped from the result.
- Skin-tone variants are not listed here. Only the base form is, because the meaning does not change with them.
Common questions
Q. What does 🦥 mean?
Laziness and slack; the right character for a weekend spent doing nothing at all.
Q. What is its official name?
Unicode calls it sloth, code point U+1F9A5. It sits under Nature and animals.
Q. Does it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes — though every vendor draws it slightly differently.