Snowman Sign symbol
Type :snowman_sign: · Tech & keys
What ☃ is for
The plain text snowman, complete with snowfall around it. Unicode also has a snowman without snow at a different codepoint, which is the one most platforms show as the colour emoji, so the naming is genuinely backwards from what you would guess.
How to type ☃
The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With
Emoji Anywhere
installed you can skip all of them and type
:snowman_sign: in any text field instead, which
is the same on every platform.
macOS
No direct shortcut. Use Edit → Emoji & Symbols, or switch to the Unicode Hex
Input source and type 2603 with Option
held.
Windows
No Alt code. In Word, type 2603 then press Alt +
X. Elsewhere use the emoji panel with Win + Period, or Character Map.
Shortcodes
:snowman_sign: On the web
HTML ☃
Unicode U+2603
What ☃ gets mistaken for
the snowman emoji
The same codepoint in colour. Type :snowman2: for that one and :snowman_sign: for the text glyph here.
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