Snowman without snow Emoji

Travel

A classic winter figure built from two stacked balls of snow, featuring a carrot nose, two coal eyes, and three buttons down its front. Unlike the version adorned with flakes, this design focuses on the character itself standing against a clear backdrop.

Usage Context

Used to signal cold weather, the holiday season, or a desire for snow. It is frequently sent during winter storms or to invoke the nostalgic feeling of building a fort in the yard. It pairs well with other seasonal icons like ❄️ or 🧣.

History

This icon was added to the Unicode standard in 2008 as part of the initial push to bring common festive symbols to international platforms. Its design roots trace back to early pixel-art weather sets used in Japanese mobile messaging services, where icons were necessary to quickly report daily temperature changes.

Details

Glyph

⛄

Unicode

U+26C4

Shortcode

:emoji_u26c4:

HTML Entity

⛄

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory sky & weather

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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