Snowflake Emoji

Travel

A six-pointed crystalline structure with intricate, delicate branches. This graphic represents a single ice crystal falling during freezing weather conditions.

Usage Context

Used to describe cold temperatures, winter seasons, or outdoor activities like skiing and sledding. People often use it to indicate that a beverage is chilled or to convey a frosty, icy mood. It frequently appears alongside ⛄ or 🎿 when discussing the holidays or snowy forecasts.

History

Included in the original Unicode character sets derived from Japanese mobile phone carriers in the late 1990s, the snowflake was intended to provide visual shorthand for weather reports in SMS-based messaging systems.

Details

Glyph

❄

Unicode

U+2744

Shortcode

:emoji_u2744:

HTML Entity

❄

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Travel

Subcategory sky & weather

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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