Technical information

Symbol
NameSnowflake
Unicode numberU+2744
CategorySnowflake
DescriptionThe Unicode character "❄", or U+2744, is known as "Snowflake". It falls under the "Dingbats" block and the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This symbol typically represents snow or cold weather and is often used in weather forecasts to denote snowfall or in text to signify winter, the Christmas season, or anything related to snow and cold. Its design consists of a symmetrical six-pointed pattern, akin to an actual snowflake's crystalline structure.

Encoding

HTML Entity❄
HTML Entity (hex)❄
URL Escape Code%E2%9D%84
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x9D 0x84
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011101:10000100
UTF-160x2744
UTF-320x00002744

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2744"
CSS Code\2744
JavaScript"\u2744"
Perl\x{2744}
Python 2u"\u2744"
Python 3\u2744
Ruby\u{2744}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ❄ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#10052;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2744";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References