What is the difference between Snake and Snake Symbol?

Snake is U+1F40D in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. Snake Symbol is U+1CCFA in the Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Snake?

The HTML entity for Snake (U+1F40D) is 🐍.

What is the HTML entity for Snake Symbol?

The HTML entity for Snake Symbol (U+1CCFA) is 𜳺.

Are Snake and Snake Symbol the same Unicode character?

No. Snake is U+1F40D (decimal 128013) and Snake Symbol is U+1CCFA (decimal 118010). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Snake and Snake Symbol?

Snake (U+1F40D) encodes as F0 9F 90 8D in UTF-8. Snake Symbol (U+1CCFA) encodes as F0 9C B3 BA in UTF-8.

Snake vs Snake Symbol

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

🐍

Snake

U+1F40D

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Snake Symbol

U+1CCFA

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Property Comparison

Property	Snake	Snake Symbol
Codepoint	`U+1F40D`	`U+1CCFA`
Decimal	`128013`	`118010`
HTML Entity	`🐍`	`𜳺`
HTML Decimal	`🐍`	`𜳺`
HTML Hex	`🐍`	`𜳺`
UTF-8	`F0 9F 90 8D`	`F0 9C B3 BA`
UTF-16	`D8 3D DC 0D`	`D8 33 DC FA`
UTF-32	`0001F40D`	`0001CCFA`
CSS Escape	`\1F40D`	`\1CCFA`
JS Escape	`\uD83D\uDC0D`	`\uD833\uDCFA`
Python Escape	`\U0001F40D`	`\U0001CCFA`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9F%90%8D`	`%F0%9C%B3%BA`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Symbol (So)`
Block	`Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs`	`Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`6.0`	`17.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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