Snowflake

Meaning and uses

A six-armed snowflake. It stands for winter, cold and anything frozen, and it is a common decoration in December names and captions.

Unicode details

❄ is the Unicode character named SNOWFLAKE, code point U+2744, in the Dingbats block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It can also appear as an emoji, listed under the name “snowflake”. Plain text is its default, but some apps draw it in colour anyway. Adding the invisible variation selector U+FE0F after it asks for the emoji style, and U+FE0E asks for plain text.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ❄

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “snowflake”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “snowflake”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2744, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ❄. In a CSS content property, use "\2744".