Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
⛄Snowman Without Snow Emoji
Generally, it just means a snowman! People use it to represent winter or something cute and silly.
The ⛄ emoji is a snowman without snow.
- Unicode
- U+26C4
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :snowman_
without_ snow: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ⛄ Snowman Without Snow emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
02 — Platforms
Snowman Without Snow emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+26C4. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Snowman Without Snow emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :snowman_without_snow:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+26C4.
04 — How to type
How to type the ⛄ Snowman Without Snow emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Snowman Without Snow emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the snowman without snow as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Snowman Without Snow emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around snowman without snow for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →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.
08 — In conversation
What ⛄ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Apps
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.
11 — Difference
⛄ vs ☃️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Snowman Without Snow
Code: U+26C4 · added 2010
Shortcode: :snowman_without_snow:
Generally, it just means a snowman!
Unicode name: Snowman
Code: U+2603 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :snowman:
Generally, the snowman emoji just means a snowman.
12 — History
Where the ⛄ Snowman Without Snow emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+26C4 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
⛄ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E641, KDDI au E485, SoftBank E048.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Snowman Without Snow was approved as U+26C4 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ⛄ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ