Question 1

What does the 🐚 spiral shell emoji mean?

Accepted Answer

The spiral shell emoji depicts a spiral sea shell and represents the beach and the ocean. It is used for beaches, summer, and the sea.

Question 2

What does it symbolise?

Accepted Answer

It evokes the beach and the sea, and is linked to listening to the ocean in a shell.

Question 3

When was this emoji added to Unicode?

Accepted Answer

It was part of the original Unicode 6.0 emoji set, first released in 2010 (Emoji 0.6).

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