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U+2744 · SNOWFLAKE

Snowflake

  • CodepointU+2744
  • NameSNOWFLAKE
  • Emoji namesnowflake
  • Decimal10052
  • BlockDingbats (U+2700–U+27BF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2744 (❄) is SNOWFLAKE, a symbol in the Dingbats block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “snowflake”, in the Travel & Places group, subgroup sky & weather. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+2744 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

How to type ❄

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 9D 843 bytes
UTF-1627441 code unit
UTF-32000027444 bytes
HTML decimal❄
HTML hex❄
CSS\2744in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2744
JSON\u2744
Python\u2744
Python\N{SNOWFLAKE}by name
Java / C#\u2744
C / C++\u2744universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2744}
Go\u2744
Ruby\u2744
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(10052)
URL-encoded%E2%9D%84percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Dingbats

All in block →
U+273E✾Six Petalled Black and White Florette U+273F✿Black Florette U+2740❀White Florette U+2741❁Eight Petalled Outlined Black Florette U+2742❂Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star U+2743❃Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk U+2745❅Tight Trifoliate Snowflake U+2746❆Heavy Chevron Snowflake U+2747❇Sparkle U+2748❈Heavy Sparkle U+2749❉Balloon-Spoked Asterisk U+274A❊Eight Teardrop-Spoked Propeller Asterisk