U+2603 "☃" Snowman Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☃
U+2603 "☃" Snowman is a pictographic symbol representing a cheerful, traditional snowman composed of three stacked snowballs, often depicted with stick arms, a carrot nose, and a hat, though the exact appearance varies by font and platform. Introduced in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, it belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols block and is commonly used in digital communication to convey winter, cold weather, holiday cheer, or playful references to snow and frosty conditions. Its simplicity and universal recognition have made it a popular choice for seasonal messages, weather reports, and decorations in text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2603 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Snowman |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ☃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ☃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x98 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2603 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002603 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2603 |