⛄

Snowman Without Snow Emoji ⛄

The same three-snowball figure as ☃️ Snowman, minus any snow falling around it, which is exactly what its name is pointing out. It arrived later, in 2009, built from the start to render as a full-color emoji rather than a text symbol, so it's the version that shows up reliably across devices. People use it for actually building a snowman, winter activities, or just Christmas-card cold in general.

What ⛄ means

A snowman, designed in an exact manner as the ☃️ Snowman emoji, with a visual subtraction of the surrounding snowflakes. The character is also designed with a hat, in both cases.

The ⛄ Snowman Without Snow emoji suggests a withstanding snowman even after snowfall. It may represent that 'winter has gone' and that this snowman might be the last one for the season (no puns intended).

How and when to use it

If you're texting someone about how sad you are that winter is coming to an end, or if you're sharing a metaphorical social media post/story of the same, you can use ⛄ in those contexts.
While sharing pictures of your snowman or your kid's snowman from the previous winter(s), ⛄ would be an apt emoji.
The lack of snowfall in ⛄ can also suggest that the snowman isn't an actual snow-man. Meaning, you can use this emoji in frameworks of a snowman, but on other platforms, like a painting, a stuffed toy, etc.
Placing both ⛄ and the ☃️ Snowman emoji together may also signify the passage of time through the winters (the order is subjective).

Other Names

⛄ Snowman Without Snowflakes
⛄ Melting Snowman
⛄ Old Snowman
⛄ Winter is Going
⛄ Frosty the Snowman
⛄ Olaf
⛄ Snow Sculpture

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › sky & weather
Codepoints: U+26C4
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :snowman: GitHub · Discord:snowman_without_snow: Slack
Keywords: cold, man, snow, snowman

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.