On Apple/iOS, the snowman faces forward with a friendly vibe: a glossy, bright-white two-ball body, black top hat, coal-like eyes with a dotted smile, a bold red scarf, and simple twig arms angled outward. Clean lines, soft gray shading, and zero background clutter make it instantly readable, and that hat-and-scarf combo seals the wholesome, greeting-card feel. Online, you’ll see it used earnestly for winter wonderland posts, ironically in July to roast a heat wave, or playfully in messages like “I’m frozen bc your reply took 8 years.” It can even double as a flirty nudge—you’re cool but still cozy—basically hot-cocoa energy in emoji form.
As a character, it’s winter’s happiest little mascot: two snowy scoops with stick arms, saying brr while keeping it cute. People drop it in captions for first-snow flexes, holiday cards, ski-trip brags, or whenever the office AC turns the conference room into Antarctica. It also works as mood armor—signal that you’re playing it cool, giving the cold shoulder, or delivering an ice-cold take to someone’s spicy drama. Culturally, it nods to Frosty the Snowman, Frozen’s Olaf, and that universal childhood ritual of stacking lumpy snowballs that always tilt a bit to the left.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1137 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 Code |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ☃ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ☃ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | ☃ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | ☃ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 2603 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+2603 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9731 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x98 0x83 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 98 83 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 230 203 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x2603 |
| UTF-16 Hex | 2603 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9731 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x00002603 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 2603 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9731 |
| Python Src | u"\u2603" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x98\x83" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u2603" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 10 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ☃️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ☃️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | ☃ ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | ☃ ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 2603, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+2603, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9731, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x98 0x83, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 98 83, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 230 203, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x2603, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | 2603, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9731, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x00002603 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 2603, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9731, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\u2603\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x98\x83\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u2603\uFE0F" |
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