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:polar_bear:U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F🐻‍❄️\1F43B\200D\2744\FE0F"\u{1F43B}\u{200D}\u{2744}\u{FE0F}"%F0%9F%90%BB%E2%80%8D%E2%9D%84%EF%B8%8FSnow, bitter cold and the far north all fit inside this white Arctic bear. It is the biggest land predator of the polar ice.
People send it when it is freezing outside or after a cold-water plunge. It also appears often in climate posts about melting sea ice.
It is built from ๐ป and โ๏ธ joined together. On older devices it may show as those two emoji side by side.
Polar bear ๐ปโโ๏ธ is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. It is a sequence that joins ๐ป bear and โ๏ธ snowflake. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :polar_bear:. People also look for it with words like โanimalโ, โarcticโ, โbearโ, or โpolarโ.
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2020
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