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Meaning & usage
What does the Snowflake emoji mean?
A single snow crystal for winter, cold weather and uniqueness.
Crisp and seasonal. It is almost always about weather or winter, though it has a separate political use as an insult that is worth knowing about.
How to use ❄️ naturally
Snow days, festive posts and describing the first properly cold morning.
Nature emoji describe weather and places while also carrying emotional associations such as calm, hope, luck or change. They are common in captions because they establish a mood without a long explanation.
From standard to slang
The history of ❄️
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Snowflake was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A six-armed crystal. Real snowflakes are six-fold symmetrical, and every platform draws it correctly, which is not true of most natural objects in this set.
- Today
How its use evolved
Snow days, festive posts and describing the first properly cold morning.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of ❄️ in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
First proper snow of the year ❄️
Schools closed ❄️
Minus nine and clear ❄️
When to use it
Using ❄️ clearly
Snow days, festive posts and describing the first properly cold morning. It lands as snowflake emoji meaning or ❄️ meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the snowflake emoji
What does ❄️ mean in a text message?
A single snow crystal for winter, cold weather and uniqueness. Crisp and seasonal. It is almost always about weather or winter, though it has a separate political use as an insult that is worth knowing about.
Is ❄️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are snowflake emoji meaning, ❄️ meaning, snow emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does ❄️ look different on another device?
U+2744 U+FE0F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the snowflake emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. ❄️ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the snowflake emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records ❄️ as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
❄️ in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2744 U+FE0F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | ❄️ | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | ❄️ | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \2744 \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{2744}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %E2%9D%84%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+2744 U+FE0F
- Category
- Weather & Nature
- Also known as
- snowflake emoji meaning❄️ meaningsnow emoji
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