Snowflake
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- Shortcode
:snowflake:- Unicode
U+2744- HTML
❄- CSS
\2744- JavaScript
"\u{2744}"- URL
%E2%9D%84%EF%B8%8F
What ❄️ means
A six-sided snowflake. It means snow, winter and cold, and it is also slang for a person seen as too sensitive or easily offended.
Holiday posts, ski trips and AC-blasting offices ("it's ❄️ in here") use it most. The insult use is pointed and political, so it can start arguments.
In drug slang, ❄️ can be code for cocaine. That use is niche, but it is worth knowing when the context is odd.
Facts
Snowflake ❄️ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under sky weather. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). One other emoji uses it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :snowflake:. People also look for it with words like “cold”, “snow”, or “weather”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
- 2020New emoji built from it (Emoji 13.0)🐻❄️
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.