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❆

heavy chevron snowflake

Heavy Chevron Snowflake

❆ is a decorative snowflake and winter symbol; it gives text a frosty seasonal feel rather than one fixed chat meaning. It is a text dingbat, so its outline and weight come from the active font, not a standardized emoji design.

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❆ meaning · ❆ winter symbol · snowflake text symbol · ❆ vs ❄ · type ❆ in Word · dingbat snowflake
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What ❆ means

It marks winter or frost as decoration.

The Unicode Dingbats collection draws largely on ITC Zapf Dingbats Series 100, a typeface made for printed ornaments. A dingbat is a small decorative sign used in typesetting. Hermann Zapf sketched more than 1,200 signs in 1977; ITC selected a subset for the typeface in 1978.

The set entered Unicode as Zapf Dingbats in 1991 and was renamed Dingbats in 1993. Those dates trace the typeface's path into Unicode, not the first use of this particular snowflake. Its exact outline and weight vary with the font.

Typographic and seasonal, with a decorative rather than conversational tone.

Don't confuse it with

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❄
Snowflake
Its more open six-armed form differs from ❆'s heavier chevron-shaped arms.
❅
Tight Trifoliate Snowflake
Its compact, three-lobed snowflake contrasts with ❆'s heavier chevron arms.

Questions people ask

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Why does ❆ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type ❆

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2746, then Alt+X to get ❆.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “heavy chevron snowflake”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2746, then Enter or Space.
HTML
❆
CSS
\2746
Microsoft Word (Windows)
Type 2746, then press Alt+X.
CSS, JSON, or JavaScript
Use \2746 in CSS, or \u2746 in JSON and JavaScript.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
❆
HTML hex
❆
CSS content
content: "\2746";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9D%86
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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