U+2744 "❄" Snowflake Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
❄
U+2744 "❄" Snowflake is a typographic symbol that depicts a classic, six-pointed snowflake design, often used in digital contexts to represent winter, cold weather, frozen precipitation, or a frosty aesthetic. It belongs to the Dingbats block of the Unicode standard and is commonly employed in text messages, social media posts, graphic design, and user interfaces to convey a seasonal or chilly theme. The glyph typically features a symmetrical, crystalline structure with intricate branching arms, making it distinct from other snowflake-like symbols such as the heavier or outlined versions found elsewhere in Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2744 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Snowflake |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ❄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ❄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9D 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2744 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002744 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2744 |