What does 🦥 Sloth mean?
A sloth hanging from a branch, smiling sleepily. It is the emoji of laziness, slow living and doing absolutely nothing on purpose. People use it for lazy Sundays, slow Wi-Fi, sluggish replies or moving at their own pace. Since sloth is also one of the seven deadly sins, it works for jokey confessions about procrastination. It arrived in 2019 with Emoji 12.0.
🦥 Sloth is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category (mammals), added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. People use it in messages about lazy and slow.
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🦥 Sloth on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Sloth looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Sloth emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🦥 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :sloth:.
When was the Sloth emoji added?
🦥 Sloth was added in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🦥 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Sloth. The underlying code (U+1F9A5) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.