The snowman emoji is winter’s cheeriest mascot—two scoops of frost with stick arms, here to say brr but make it cute. People drop it in captions for first snowfall flexes, holiday cards, ski-trip bragging, or when the office AC turns the conference room into Antarctica. It doubles as mood armor too: use it to signal you’re playing it cool, giving the cold shoulder, or reacting with an ice-cold take to someone’s spicy drama. Culturally, it nods to Frosty the Snowman, Olaf from Frozen, and that universal childhood memory of packing lumpy snowballs that lean slightly to the left.
On Apple/iOS, the snowman looks front-facing and friendly: a bright white, glossy two-ball build with a black top hat, coal-like eyes and dotted smile, a bold red scarf, and simple stick arms angled outward—clean lines, soft gray shading, zero background clutter. It’s instantly recognized by the hat-and-scarf combo and that wholesome, greeting-card vibe. Online, it’s used earnestly for winter wonderland posts, ironically in July to roast heat waves, or playfully in texts like I’m frozen bc your reply took 8 years. It can even be a flirty wink—aka you’re cool—but still cozy, like hot cocoa energy in emoji form.
| 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" |
