Meaning
A sloth, a slow-moving tree-dwelling mammal, often associated with laziness or taking things easy.
Category: Animals & Nature
🦥sloth
🦥 sloth belongs to Animals & Nature. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:sloth:
Keywords
lazyslowsloth
What does 🦥 sloth mean?
This emoji depicts a sloth, a slow-moving mammal known for hanging in trees. It is widely used to represent slowness, procrastination, laziness, or a cozy and relaxed mood. It can also be used literally to refer to the animal itself.
Often used for
- Representing slowness or laziness
- Joking about procrastination
- Expressing a cozy or relaxed mood
- Referring to the actual animal
Tone: Because sloths are often associated with laziness, using this emoji to describe a person can come across as an insult. It is generally safest to use it literally when referring to the animal itself.
Illustrative message examples with 🦥
These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.
- My brain is moving at 1 FPS today 🦥
- Sorry for the late reply! 🦥
- Sunday is for naps and doing nothing 🦥
- We saw a sloth at the zoo today! 🦥 so cute
- Just hanging out and taking it easy 🦥
Combos, text art & scenes with 🦥
How 🦥 sloth looks
Appearance varies by device and platform — your system font draws the native version below.
OpenMoji artwork CC BY-SA 4.0 — see attributions.
🦥 sloth codes for developers
Every format below produces 🦥 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.
| Emoji | 🦥 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+1F9A5 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦥 | |
| HTML (hex) | 🦥 | |
| CSS | \1F9A5 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9A5} | |
| JSON | \uD83E\uDDA5 | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A6%A5 | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :sloth: |
🦥 in other languages
SpanishperezosoFrenchparesseuxGermanFaultierItalianbradipoPortuguesepreguiçaRussianленивецJapaneseナマケモノKorean나무늘보Chinese树懒LithuaniantinginysPolishleniwiec
Source: Unicode CLDR