Three stacked snowballs topped with a carrot nose and stick arms, drawn with a few flakes of snow falling around it on many platforms. It's the older of the two snowman characters, added back in 1993, and it still defaults to a plain black-and-white glyph on some software unless forced into full color. In practice people reach for it for winter fun, Christmas cheer, and the first snow day of the year, same territory as ⛄ Snowman Without Snow.
What ☃️ means
A two-tiered character made of snow; the top, smaller snowball is designed with a pair of eyes, a carrot nose, and a beady smile, while the base snowball has two or three black buttons and two tree-branch hands, with a couple of snowflakes falling over and around.
The ☃️ Snowman emoji is one of the most common themes and characters closely related to the winters, Christmas, and maybe even winter vacation. This emoji can also signify molding, making, creativity, and again, the little joys of life.
How and when to use it
- A snowman is art that is given life by the artist. Similarly, you can use ☃️ to refer to anything that is moulded or made by the likeness of the creator - "How do you like this wall hanging I made!☃️".
- A snowman just sits there while the artist the job, suggesting a lack of decision-making. For example, "Yeah, sure. I'll just sit and wait for you without doing what I want to do. Sounds good, right? ☃️".
- Building a snowman is team effort. Thus indicating friendship, bonding, and family time. Use ☃️ in all those contexts that echo the essence of friendship and togetherness.
- ☃️ shows a snowman with snow falling around, suggesting that the snowman is fresh or has been made during the snowfall. Use this emoji while sharing pictures or videos of your fresh snowman!
Other Names
- ☃️ Snowman With Snow
- ☃️ Fresh Snowman
- ☃️ Snowing Snowman
- ☃️ Frosty the Snowman
- ☃️ Wintertime
- ☃️ Snowball Character
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › sky & weather
- Codepoints
U+2603 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:snowman_with_snow:GitHub- 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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — ☃️ Snowman or ⛓️💥 Broken Chain?
Runs with a crowd
☃️ keeps company in weather emojis and white emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.