Snow emoji meanings: ❄️, ☃️, ⛄ and 🌨️
The snowflake is the core winter emoji: snow, cold, the season, and anything icy or calm. The snowman is shown with falling snow around it, while snowman without snow stands on its own; they mean the same thing, so pick the one you like. Cloud with snow is the weather-forecast version, and ice and the blue, freezing face cover the cold itself.
also has slang meanings worth knowing. "Snowflake" is used as an insult for someone seen as overly sensitive, and drug-awareness guides list as code for cocaine. In ordinary messages about weather or the holidays nobody reads it that way, but context matters in comments and on dating apps.
Cosy winter emoji: drinks, clothes and staying in
The other side of winter is staying warm. and are the hot drinks ( is the usual stand-in for hot chocolate, since there is no separate cocoa emoji), is the chocolate, and are soup and fondue, and and are roasted chestnuts and sweet potatoes from winter street stalls. make the fireplace and candlelight, is knitting, and is not getting out of bed.
For clothes there are scarf, gloves, coat, socks and boots. A winter emoji aesthetic usually keeps to whites and soft blues: or . Keep for December posts; for January and February, when people search for winter symbols that are not Christmas, says winter without the holiday.
Winter sports emoji
skier, skis, snowboarder, ice skate, sled, ice hockey and curling stone cover the sports, and the cable car takes you up the snow-capped mountain. takes skin-tone modifiers; does not.
Animals finish the picture: penguin, polar bear, seal, deer and moose, and for hibernation. and the bare leafless tree, added in 2024, show the winter landscape.
Winter symbols copy and paste: snowflakes in plain text
For bios, usernames and documents, plain-text snowflakes keep their shape and take the colour of the text: (tight trifoliate snowflake), (heavy chevron snowflake) and the star-like asterisks that read as snowflakes at small sizes. is a black text snowman, and is the Mahjong tile literally named "winter".
The plain can switch between text and emoji depending on the app. Outside the phone, a snowflake on a car's climate panel, an air conditioner or a thermostat marks cooling, and a snowflake inside a three-peaked mountain on a tyre's sidewall means it is certified for severe snow.
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How to use them
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- and are among the oldest characters here: both were part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993, long before emoji. , the snowman without snow, came from Japanese phone emoji and joined Unicode in 2009.
- The cold face only arrived in 2018, and the scarf , gloves , coat and socks in 2017, so for years emoji users had snow but nothing warm to wear.
- Real snowflakes are six-sided because of how water molecules lock together as ice, which is why and the text snowflakes all have six arms.
- Vermont farmer Wilson Bentley took the first known photographs of single snowflakes in 1885.
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7How do I copy and paste winter emoji?
Tap or click any emoji or symbol on this page to copy it, then paste it into your message, caption or bio. Combos copy as one piece.
What are the best winter emoji?
snowflake, snowman, cold face, cloud with snow, scarf, skier, ice skate and hot drink.
What does the snow emoji mean?
Snow, cold weather and winter in general. In slang it can mean an overly sensitive person ("snowflake") or, in drug code, cocaine, so read it in context.
What are good winter emoji combos?
for a snow day, for a cosy night, for a winter aesthetic and for a ski trip.
What are winter symbols that aren't Christmas?
and the text snowflakes . They fit January and February posts without looking like holiday greetings.
How do I type a snowflake symbol in text?
Copy or from this page; unlike they never turn into a colour emoji. The asterisks also pass as small snowflakes.
What does the snowflake symbol mean in a car or on a thermostat?
It marks the air conditioning or cooling mode. On a tyre, a snowflake inside a three-peaked mountain means the tyre is rated for severe snow.
