🐻❄️Polar Bear Emoji
Generally, it means you're feeling cool, strong, or a little bit funny. People use it to react to something impressive or just as a cute addition to a message.
The 🐻❄️ emoji is a polar bear wearing ice skates.
- Unicode
- U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :polar_bear:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐻❄️ Polar Bear emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
Polar Bear emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F43B. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Polar Bear emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :polar_bear:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F43B.
How to type the 🐻❄️ Polar Bear emoji
No picker to hand? The polar bear can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Polar Bear emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the polar bear as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Polar Bear emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around polar bear for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🐻❄️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🐻❄️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🐻❄️ means in other countries
Signals extreme cold by default, and doubles as shorthand for climate change or a well-known holiday ad campaign.
Widely used as visual shorthand for climate change and melting Arctic ice.
Strongly associated with Coca-Cola’s long-running holiday advertising campaigns.
Just signals extreme cold, snow, or the Arctic in a general weather context.
Before you send it: Use it freely — all three readings are neutral or positive depending on context.
What 🐻❄️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🐻❄️ vs 🐻 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Polar Bear
Code: U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F · added 2020
Shortcode: :polar_bear:
Generally, it means you're feeling cool, strong, or a little bit funny.
Unicode name: Bear
Code: U+1F43B · added 2010
Shortcode: :bear:
Generally, the 🐻 emoji means a bear.
Where the 🐻❄️ Polar Bear emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Polar Bear was approved as U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐻❄️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.